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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: the instruments of a more crushing executive centralisation, of a
more utter oppression of the bodies and souls of men, than the world
has yet seen. I can conceive--may God avert the omen!--centuries
hence, some future world-ruler sitting at the junction of all
railroads, at the centre of all telegraph-wires--a world-spider in
the omphalos of his world-wide web; and smiting from thence
everything that dared to lift its head, or utter a cry of pain, with
a swiftness and surety to which the craft of a Justinian or a Philip
II. were but clumsy and impotent.
All, all outward things, be sure of it, are good or evil, exactly as
far as they are in the hands of good men or of bad.
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