68 Fellow-feeling as 



has flourished because the divisions upon which her 

 political issues have been fought have not been pri 

 marily those of mere caste or social class, and Amer 

 ica will flourish and will become greater than any 

 empire because, in the long run, in this country, any 

 party which strives to found itself upon sectional or 

 class jealousy and hostility must go down before the 

 good sense of the people. 



The only way to provide against the evils of a 

 horizontal cleavage in politics is to encourage the 

 growth of fellow-feeling, of a feeling based on the 

 relations of man to man, and not of class to class. 

 In the country districts this is not very difficult. In 

 the neighborhood where I live, on the Fourth of 

 July the four Protestant ministers and the Catholic 

 priest speak from the same platform, the children 

 of all of us go to the same district school, and the 

 landowner and the hired man take the same views, 

 not merely of politics, but of duck-shooting and of 

 international yacht races. Naturally in such a com 

 munity there is small chance for class division. 

 There is a slight feeling against the mere summer 

 residents, precisely because there is not much sym 

 pathy with them, and because they do not share in 

 our local interests; but otherwise there are enough 

 objects in common to put all much on the same plane 

 of interest in various important particulars, and each 

 man has too much self-respect to feel particularly 



