Human Physiology. 



.ster Abbey; and Nilsson, a few years ago a peasant girl, fiddling 

 and singing for pennies at country fairs, was married there in 

 an assemblage of the best society in England. Not a few of 

 the recognised great men and women of England have come 

 up from the middle and lower ranks of life. In the society of 

 the future, it will be what you are, rather than who you are, 

 that will determine social position. Even now a Premier com- 

 moner makes Lords temporal and Lords spiritual. A "literary 

 adventurer," if a man of genius, may govern an empire appoint 

 one man Viceroy in Ireland, another in Canada, and a third in 

 India; create a Duke, and then describe him in his next novel. 

 And the time is at hand when, even more than now, the charac- 

 ter and genius, or the real worth of a man or woman, will make 

 their position in every society. In a true society, every indivi- 

 dual will find his proper place, and have the consideration 

 which really belongs to him; and this is one of the chief rea- 

 sons why we should labour for the establishment of a true 

 society, and of a public opinion which will sweep away social 

 injustice, and judge every one according to his works, which is 

 the only righteous judgment. 



If the feeling and habit of caste can be overcome, we have 

 another objection to meet the thought or the dread that the 

 freedom of social intercourse, such as would exist in a.n asso- 

 ciation of combined industry, and education, and art in such 

 a social state as might be would lead to immorality. And 

 those who make this objection may know something of the 

 actual morals of fast young men and girls of the period they 

 may go to the French plays, and read some fashionable novels, 

 and glance at the reports of the court for matrimonial causes. 

 Are there no scandals in high life? Are the London streets all 

 purity and propriety? Are the pretty villas of the garden 

 suburbs of the metropolis tenanted by chaste demoiselles? 

 Are there no seductions, adulteries, infanticides? 



As far as there can be guarantees for moral conduct, they 



