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lower classes give an ovation to a leader of filibusters. 

 &quot; British power/ &quot; British pluck/ &quot; British interests/ are 

 words on every tongue; but of justice there is no speech, no 

 thought. See then the marvellous incongruity. Out of men 

 who do these things and men who applaud them, is to be 

 formed a society pervaded by the sentiment of brotherhood ! 

 It is hoped that by administrative sleight-of-hand may be 

 organized a community in which self -seeking will abdicate 

 and fellow-feeling reign in its place ! 



Passing over, for brevity s sake, similar and often worse 

 doings of other superior peoples who present themselves to 

 inferior peoples as models to be imitated doings abroad 

 which are in like manner applauded at home let us, instead 

 of further contemplating external conduct, contemplate in 

 ternal conduct. The United States has local civil wars car 

 ried on by artizans, miners, &c., who will not let others work 

 at lower wages than they themselves demand: they wreck 

 and burn property, waylay and shoot antagonists, attempt 

 to poison wholesale those who dissent. There are, according 

 to Judge Parker, lynchings at the rate of three per day ; there 

 is in the West &quot; shooting at sight &quot; ; and the daily average 

 of homicides throughout the States has risen in five years 

 from twelve per day to thirty per day; while in the South 

 occur fatal fights with pistols in courts of justice. Again, we 

 have the corruption of the ISTew York police universal 

 bribery to purchase immunity or to buy off punishment. 

 Add to this the general admiration for the unscrupulous 

 man of business, applauded as &quot; smart.&quot; And now it is 

 hoped that a nation in which self-regard leads to these start 

 ling results, may forthwith be changed into a nation in 

 which regard for others is supreme! 



~No less marvellous is the incongruity between anticipa 

 tions and probabilities in the land pre-eminently socialistic 

 Germany. Students gash one another s faces in sword- 

 fights: so gaining their emperor s approval. Duelling, 

 legally a crime and opposed in the extremest degree to the 



