The Two Voices mb-artist Charles_Wild in the sky a hot

in the sky a hot air balloon passes overhead

probably in cross's menagerie

The reference in the heading to a civil war concerns the many rumours circulating during the previous year concerning Louis Napoleon's supposed plot to launch an invasion on Britain

and his Wife

That passage is taken to be an affirmation of the complementary nature of action and consciousness (or contemplation) -- "He whose own heart is pure makes no judgment: there is no good or bad in what is done without desire

The Two Voices mb-artist Charles_Wild in the sky a hot'The Two Voices', 1887. One of Britain's genuine unemployed walks away from a meeting that was supposed to have been a respectable debate on the plight of the unemployed. The meeting had been held the previous week and had then been taken over by rioters and extremists. The representative body of unemployed workers in the East and South East of London condemned utterly the conduct of those purporting to be genuine supporters of the cause. From Punch,