He found himself in a land where no one had ever penetrated before; where order was an accidental relation obnoxious to nature; artificial compulsion imposed on motion; against which every free energy of the universe revolted; and which, being merely occasional, resolved itself back into anarchy at last. He could not deny that the law of the new multi-verse explained much that had been obscure, especially the persistently fiendish treatment of man by man; the perpetual revolt of society against the law it had established; the perpetual building up of authority by force, and the perpetual appeal to force to overthrow it; the perpetual symbolism of a higher law, and the perpetual relapse to a lower one; the perpetual victory of the principals of freedom, and their perpetual conversion into the principals of power; but the staggering problem was the outlook ahead into the despotism of artificial order which nature abhorred.-341쪽