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CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE FAIRY ISLAND.
"As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes,
The sinking stone at first a circle makes;
The trembling surface by the motion stirred,
Spreads in a second circle, then a third:
Wide and more wide, the floating rings advance,
Fill all the wat'ry plain, and to the margin dance."—Pope.
"Earth at last a warless world, a single race, a single tongue—
I have seen her so far away—for is not Earth as yet so young?—
Every tiger-madness muzzled, every serpent passion kill'd,
Every grim ravine a garden, every blazing desert till'd,
Robed in universal harvest up to either pole she smiles,
Universal ocean softly washing all her warless Isles."
Tennyson, Sixty Years After.
The doctor, with Travers, when fully recovered from the shock he had received, proceeded to perfect and complete the organization that had been for so long in course of development.
All were agreed that communism, pure and simple, such as Malduke and Elms had sought to establish, was distasteful and impracticable. The principle of representation and management that the doctor had inaugurated was definitely formulated.
