XV. 



"LANDLORD AND TENANT." 



To people of that happily constituted mind in which 

 the hope and faith in the moral progress of their 

 own race, and the sanguine watching of its slow- 

 creeping evidences, furnish a continual, albeit a 

 slender, banquet whose patient and far-reaching 

 charity may be truly said to "feed upon air, prom- 

 ise-crammed ; " it must furnish an occasional, and 

 not infrequent pang of almost despondency to 

 witness how slightly, how remotely, the best re- 

 marks of the best philosophers, the most practical 

 advice of the most practical moralists, does actually 

 reach, touch, affect, enter into, or flavor the recipro- 

 cal thoughts and actions of men in the working-day 

 routine of "business" life. Business is the word, 

 business is the excuse, business is the conventional 

 and accepted basis for a code of human action, 

 as unlike and opposed to what is declared, and 



