

Ursus and Homo went about from cross-road to cross-road, from the High Street of Aberystwith to the High Street of Jedburgh, from country-side to country-side, from shire to shire, from town to town. This it is which collects so many folks on the road of royal processions. Our greatest delight is to see all the varieties of domestication parade before us. It is a pleasant thing to behold the tameness of animals. The wolf, gentle and courteously subordinate, diverted the crowd. Man and wolf turned their partnership to account at fairs, at village fetes, at the corners of streets where passers-by throng, and out of the need which people seem to feel everywhere to listen to idle gossip and to buy quack medicine. Having found _Ursus_ fit for himself, he had found _Homo_ fit for the beast. It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his own name. Barkilphedro, having aimed at the Eagle, brings down the Dove III. It is through Excess of Greatness that Man reaches Excess of Misery He would be a Good Brother, were he not a Good Son Storms of Men are Worse than Storms of Oceans VIII. They Recognize, but do not Know, Each OtherīOOK THE EIGHTH.–THE CAPITOL AND THINGS AROUND IT. The Resemblance of a Palace to a Wood III. State Policy Deals with Little Matters as Well as with Great The Waif Knows Its Own CourseīOOK THE SIXTH.–URSUS UNDER DIFFERENT ASPECTS. ShudderingīOOK THE FIFTH.–THE SEA AND FATE ARE MOVED BY THE SAME BREATH. The Kind of Magistracy under the Wigs of Former Days VII. Why Should a Gold Piece Lower Itself by Mixing with a Heap of Pennies? Ursus the Poet Drags on Ursus the PhilosopherīOOK THE THIRD.–THE BEGINNING OF THE FISSURE. Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, and Ursus Talks Truth XII. Absurdities which Folks without Taste call Poetry X. Blindness Gives Lessons in Clairvoyance VIII. Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian VII. Wherein we see the Face of Him of whom we have hitherto seen only the Acts The Flame which would be Seen if Man were Transparent XI.

Another Form of DesertīOOK THE FIRST.–THE EVERLASTING PRESENCE OF THE PAST. The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence XVII.

A Cloud Different from the Others enters on the Scene V. Another Preliminary Chapter.–The ComprachicosīOOK THE FIRST.–NIGHT NOT SO BLACK AS MAN.
