It is upon this lower
ground of adaptation to the exigency of the age and the occasion, and as
a means to the development of still higher truths, that we urge the
inestimable importance of the effectual conquest over the South by the
North.
But the two Principles, thus brought face to face with each other, in
deadly array, under the present guise of chattel slavery and republican
freedom, are not extinguished in the world, nor in America even, nor are
they to be permanently reconciled with each other by any outcoming
whatsoever of the present war. These principles are the Aristocratic and
the Democratic; the principle of conservative order and progressive
freedom. Both are vital and essential forces, ever living, ever active;
always antagonistic; never reconciled in the past; never to be
reconciled in the future, till it be done finally, effectually,
and forever, through the SCIENCE of the subject. By the
contingencies of this war still future, by the lingering and disastrous
_sequelae_ of the war, or by other and possible eventualities not yet
sufficiently developed to be distinctly cognizable, the inherent and
unconquerable antagonism (until reconciled through science) of the great
opposing forces in human society is liable to be burst upon us with a
conflagration in comparison with which even the devastations of the
present war will seem trifling.
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