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ed motion, like the spinning of a wheel; but a productive
spinning, as the revolving of the universe may be called a
productive spinning, a productive repetition through eter-
nity, to infinity. And this is the Godmotion, this productive
repetition ad infinitum. And Gerald was the God of the ma-
chine, Deus ex Machina. And the whole productive will of
man was the Godhead.
He had his life-work now, to extend over the earth a great
and perfect system in which the will of man ran smooth and
unthwarted, timeless, a Godhead in process. He had to be-
gin with the mines. The terms were given: first the resistant
Matter of the underground; then the instruments of its sub-
jugation, instruments human and metallic; and finally his
own pure will, his own mind. It would need a marvellous
adjustment of myriad instruments, human, animal, metal-
lic, kinetic, dynamic, a marvellous casting of myriad tiny
wholes into one great perfect entirety. And then, in this case
there was perfection attained, the will of the highest was
perfectly fulfilled, the will of mankind was perfectly enact-
ed; for was not mankind mystically contra-distinguished
against inanimate Matter, was not the history of mankind
just the history of the conquest of the one by the other?
The miners were overreached. While they were still in
the toils of divine equality of man, Gerald had passed on,
granted essentially their case, and proceeded in his qual-
ity of human being to fulfil the will of mankind as a whole.
He merely represented the miners in a higher sense when
he perceived that the only way to fulfil perfectly the will of
man was to establish the perfect, inhuman machine. But he

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