And whereas thou askest as to whether I count my labour lost, I say
nay; if so be that in those latter times (and worser than ours they
will be) men shall yet seek a remedy: therefore again I ask thee, is
it so that they shall?"
"Yea," said I, "and their remedy shall be the same as thine, although
the days be different: for if the folk be enthralled, what remedy save
that they be set free? and if they have tried many roads towards
freedom, and found that they led no-whither, then shall they try yet
another. Yet in the days to come they shall be slothful to try it,
because their masters shall be so much mightier than thine, that they
shall not need to show the high hand, and until the days get to their
evilest, men shall be cozened into thinking that it is of their own
free will that they must needs buy leave to labour by pawning their
labour that is to be. Moreover, your lords and masters seem very
mighty to you, each one of them, and so they are, but they are few;
and the masters of the days to come shall not each one of them seem
very mighty to the men of those days, but they shall be very many, and
they shall be of one intent in these matters without knowing it; like
as one sees the oars of a galley when the rowers are hidden, that rise
and fall as it were with one will.
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