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the current is driving them ; and in a town like Edinburgh, which, though metro- 

 politan by public law and by historical tradition, must, since the Union, be more 

 or less provincial in respect of London, there will always be in influential 

 quarters a considerable majority of persons who, under the influence of aristo- 

 cracy, plutocracy, bureauocracy, and other potent forces working from above, 

 will prefer the meretricious glitter of borrowed accomplishments to the healthy 

 glow of home-grown virtues. 



