to which, that his sole possession and defence might not be lost, he had attached a long cord of plaited thongs; thereby recovering as well as hurling it with deadly unerring skill.  Nevertheless, the pains of Hunger and Revenge once satisfied, his next care was not Comfort but Decoration (Putz).  Warmth he found in the toils of the chase; or amid dried leaves, in his hollow tree, in his bark shed, or natural grotto:  but for Decoration he must have Clothes.  Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes.  The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is Decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

“Reader, the heaven-inspired melodious Singer; loftiest Serene Highness; nay thy own amber-locked, snow-and-rosebloom Maiden, worthy to glide sylph-like almost on air, whom thou lovest, worshippest as a divine Presence, which, indeed, symbolically taken, she is,—­has descended, like thyself, from that same hair-mantled, flint-hurling Aboriginal Anthropophagus!  Out of the eater cometh forth meat; out of the strong cometh forth sweetness.  What changes are wrought, not by Time, yet in Time!  For not Mankind only, but all that Mankind does or beholds, is in continual growth, re-genesis and self-perfecting vitality.  Cast forth thy Act, thy Word, into the ever-living, ever-working Universe:  it is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed to-day (says one), it will be found flourishing as a Banyan-grove (perhaps, alas, as a Hemlock-forest!) after a thousand years.

“He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world:  he had invented the Art of Printing.  The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal drove Monk Schwartz’s pestle through the ceiling:  what will the last do?  Achieve the final undisputed prostration of Force under Thought, of Animal courage under Spiritual.  A simple invention it was in the old-world Grazier,—­sick of lugging his slow Ox about the country till he got it bartered for corn or oil,—­to take a piece of Leather, and thereon scratch or stamp the mere Figure of an Ox (or Pecus); put it in his pocket, and call it Pecunia, Money.  Yet hereby did Barter grow Sale, the Leather Money is now Golden and Paper, and all miracles have been out-miracled:  for there are Rothschilds and English National Debts; and whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,—­to the length of sixpence.—­Clothes too, which began in foolishest love of Ornament, what have they not become!  Increased Security and pleasurable Heat soon followed:  but what of these?  Shame, divine Shame (Schaam, Modesty), as yet a stranger to the Anthropophagous bosom, arose there mysteriously under Clothes; a mystic grove-encircled shrine for the Holy in man.  Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity; Clothes have made Men of us; they are threatening to make Clothes-screens of us.