{"id":"01KG8AMDK667GWPH10W0VGR57K","cid":"bafkreifn6ydbuhk7ahkuyqyxavuojfrsmx4e5wx55yv3kkh4bhmidcn3vu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":12336,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:36.278Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J19NC56FFGBCM2SWEZZY","start_line":12279,"text":"“Feel! only a finger the lighter. I have seven more left, besides\r\nthumbs; and they did good service, too, in the torn rigging the day\r\nafter the fight; for you must know, my hearties, that the hardest work\r\ncomes after the guns are run in. Three days I helped work, with one\r\nhand, in the rigging, in the same trowsers that I wore in the action;\r\nthe blood had dried and stiffened; they looked like glazed red\r\nmorocco.”\r\n\r\nNow, this Jack Chase had a heart in him like a mastodon’s. I have seen\r\nhim weep when a man has been flogged at the gangway; yet, in relating\r\nthe story of the Battle of Navarino, he plainly showed that he held the\r\nGod of the blessed Bible to have been the British Commodore in the\r\nLevant, on the bloody 20th of October, A. D. 1827. And thus it would\r\nseem that war almost makes blasphemers of the best of men, and brings\r\nthem all down to the Feejee standard of humanity. Some man-of-war’s-men\r\nhave confessed to me, that as a battle has raged more and more, their\r\nhearts have hardened in infernal harmony; and, like their own guns,\r\nthey have fought without a thought.\r\n\r\nSoldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and\r\nbody-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. But war at times is\r\ninevitable. Must the national honour be trampled under foot by an\r\ninsolent foe?\r\n\r\nSay on, say on; but know you this, and lay it to heart, war-voting\r\nBench of Bishops, that He on whom we believe _himself_ has enjoined us\r\nto turn the left cheek if the right be smitten. Never mind what\r\nfollows. That passage you can not expunge from the Bible; that passage\r\nis as binding upon us as any other; that passage embodies the soul and\r\nsubstance of the Christian faith; without it, Christianity were like\r\nany other faith. And that passage will yet, by the blessing of God,\r\nturn the world. But in some things we must turn Quakers first.\r\n\r\nBut though unlike most scenes of carnage, which have proved useless\r\nmurders of men, Admiral Codrington’s victory undoubtedly achieved the\r\nemancipation of Greece, and terminated the Turkish atrocities in that\r\ntomahawked state, yet who shall lift his hand and swear that a Divine\r\nProvidence led the van of the combined fleets of England, France, and\r\nRussia at the battle of Navarino? For if this be so, then it led the\r\nvan against the Church’s own elect—the persecuted Waldenses in\r\nSwitzerland—and kindled the Smithfield fires in bloody Mary’s time.\r\n\r\nBut all events are mixed in a fusion indistinguishable. What we call\r\nFate is even, heartless, and impartial; not a fiend to kindle bigot\r\nflames, nor a philanthropist to espouse the cause of Greece. We may\r\nfret, fume, and fight; but the thing called Fate everlastingly sustains\r\nan armed neutrality.\r\n\r\nYet though all this be so, nevertheless, in our own hearts, we mould\r\nthe whole world’s hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own\r\ngods. Each mortal casts his vote for whom he will to rule the worlds; I\r\nhave a voice that helps to shape eternity; and my volitions stir the\r\norbits of the furthest suns. In two senses, we are precisely what we\r\nworship. Ourselves are Fate.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJVA04M1ZAHF5S2XQGQJC","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J19NC56FFGBCM2SWEZZY","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AMDK6MHMAN3KDVXMEWNMS","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:36.454Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:53.150Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}