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classes of society than others, and always will 

 be ; but that should not content us ; it should 

 rather stimulate us, seeing how altogether 

 beautiful it is, to induce a healthy tone in 

 the taste of all classes of society. We must 

 dismiss the illusion that a poor man, simply 

 because he is poor, can not appreciate the en- 

 joyments of taste ; and we must no longer do 

 him the injustice of growing for his special 

 use an inferior class of food. The " millions " 

 must have as good grapes and as good grain 

 as the " tens." It is their right, and they are 

 beginning to comprehend it. There is a power 

 at work which will at no distant day sweep 

 from the market every grape inferior to the 

 Diana. No greater service could be performed 

 for both grape growers and grape consumers. 

 We can already see the beginning of the 

 end. Many intelligent vineyardists, perceiv- 

 ing the impolicy of spending their capital and 

 labor in the cultivation of inferior varieties 

 of grapes, are replacing them by better kinds. 

 Causes are at work which will in time, and 

 that no very distant time, effect a complete 

 revolution in our estimate of the value of 

 grapes for the vineyard. The change, indeed, 

 is now going on pretty fast, and it would be 



