40 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



I)ower is required, that " blood will tell,'" Take the 

 first clodhopper you may meet, who is inured to hard 

 work u))()n the railroad ; I will take the first gentleman 

 1 find within the doors of Almack's. Let the clod pate 

 be equally well fed,— trained, if you please, for a month ; 

 and I will back the gentleman to kill him in walking from 

 London to York, or any other feat of endurance. When 

 I say " blood will tell," it is because from high breeding 

 descends a larger share of what is technically termed 

 " pluck ;" because there is a never-yielding spirit, an 

 animus infused through the veins, which has given rise 

 to the saying, with regard to horses, that an ounce of 

 blood is worth a pound of bone. This principle may be 

 fairly extended and carried out in reference to human 

 nature. However independent the mind is of the body, 

 the mind is the essence of being,— the life, the soul ; and 

 will support, in a manner truly wondeiful (and admirable, 

 indeed, as the greatest of the great Creator's works), a 

 frame bearing no proportion to the mighty spirit by 

 which it is animated. If we have, in the present time, 

 degenerated in outward form from those in the days of 

 our ancestors, whose 



" Pillow was buckler, cold and hard, 

 Who carved at the meal 

 ' With gloves of steel, 



And drank the red wine through the hchiKt harred ; " 



there is still the same chivalrous feelinji to nerve the 



