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their superiors. The presence of a lady is often enough to 

 change the manners of a whole assemblage. 



The English people might undoubtedly be brought by precept 

 and example to behave as well as French people of a corres- 

 ponding class; and these, the poorest working population of 

 Paris, are neat in their dress, civil, respectful, and polite in 

 manner, careful of the rights of others, never elbowing, never 

 crowding, asserting their own dignity, and never encroaching 

 upon others. At the entrances of French theatres no one is 

 ever crowded. The people take their places behind each 

 other and wait their turns for hours. I saw thousands of the 

 people of Paris, near the close of the siege, their faces white 

 with hunger, standing patiently in long lines, each quietly wait- 

 ing his turn to be helped. An English crowd is generally dis- 

 agreeable and dangerous from selfish impatience, and disregard 

 for the rights of others. Sometimes their bad manners become 

 murderous, as when all are intruding, pressing upon, and per- 

 sonally assaulting each other, and some are thrown down and 

 trampled to death. 



The remedy for all this is a sense of justice, a constant, 

 habitual regard for the rights of others, and the discipline and 

 habit of attention to the welfare, the convenience, and happi- 

 ness of those around us, and all with whom we come into con- 

 tact or proximity. Children from their earliest years should be 

 trained to an unselfish consideration for the pleasure of others ; 

 and taught the delight of doing good. In all schools, civil, 

 deferent, polite, conciliating, and obliging manners should be 

 as carefully taught as the rudiments of learning. Manners 

 really influence the character. Our thoughts and feelings are 

 moulded by our actions. We make acts of virtue, until they 

 become habitual and spontaneous, just as by placing ourselves 

 in the attitude and using the forms of devotion, the feeling is 

 awakened. 



And the influence and example of a few persons will speedily 



