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★ 152 ★ Mighty floods, climate change, fluctuations in the center of gravity, a general tendency to dissolve away, strange meteors are the symptoms of this violent incitation, the result of which will constitute the content of a new world age. Though it may be necessary that in certain periods everything is brought into flux in order to bring forth new, essential mixtures, and to give rise to a new, more pure crystallization, it is likewise necessary to alleviate this crisis and prevent the total dissolution, so that a core remains, a nucleus that brings together a new mass, and which then constitute beautiful new forms. So, the solid draws itself more tightly together, reducing the excess warmth so that one spares no means to prevent the breaking of bones and dissolution of the typical fibers.

Wouldn't it be nonsense to make a crisis permanent, and to believe that the feverish state is the true, healthy state, upon whose preservation all must be focused? By the way, who may doubt its necessity, its beneficial effect.

16. There will be a time coming and soon, when one will be generally convinced that there can exist no king without a republic and no republic without a king, that it is found that both are indivisible, like body and soul, and that a king without a republic and a republic without a king become only words without meaning. Thus a king always develops simultaneously with a true republic, and a republic with a true king. The real king will be the republic, the real republic be the king.

17. Those, who in our day denounce princes per se and nowhere exemplify grace except in the