New-York tribune., 1873-06-13
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ISrSely devoted % Speculative views. l' Is maFNeo
hy movement. and nervous cnergy. and racy freSl-
neSs which make the >tetly N itS ISSes IeSS TASK
than a pleasure. Apart fgVm It's main SUBJECT II
ahOun6S in incidental notices, critical comments
and Personal rvferences which are perhaps more
likely % attract the attention of readers IN general
than the profound analyses aud expoNtions that
form the staple Of the volume. The author. for in
stance cheriSheS no Overweening admiration o. the
House Of Lords rs political body, but is not blind
10 the importance of its social functions of which
ne pr,sents a description as just as il is graphic
me nee OF the House Of Lords-or, rather, OF the
lords. its dgnitcd capacty-is very great II does
tracts very much. The office OF order Of nobility is
20 impose on the common peoplenot necessarily TO i'm
pose on them what is untrue, less what is hurfu;
but stll impose their quicscent magnatOns what
would not otherwise he there The fancy OF the mass OF
Is Incredibly weak IL can see nothing without
YlRhle symbol, and there Is much that IL scarcely
make out with symbol Nobility Is the symbol OF mind
lt has the marks from which the mass OF men always
used 70 infer mind and often st infer 1t. common
clever who goes into country place VIII get no
reverence; but the old squire Will set reverence.
Even after he is ns0lyent when every knows That
ms ruin but question OF time, he will get five times
as much respect from the common peasanpy the
sewly made rich man who sits beside him. The common
than to the new mans sense An old lord will get in
hnite respect His existence Is so far useful that
IN the dull contracted multitude, who could
neither appreciate nor perceive any other
The of nobility Is Of great too, not only In
what creates, but in what it prevents. 1t prevents
the rule OF wealth-the religion Of gold This il the
obvious and natural idol OF the AngO-saXOn He is
always trying 10 make money; he reckOns everything
IN COM be bows down before great heap and sneerS
he passes little heap He has natural instructive
admiration Of wealth for IT'S own sake" Aud within
play the game OF industry vigorously eagerly Ond
hope we shall long play it. for we must be very dit-
fereDt from what We are II we do anything better,
We shall OF necessity respect and admire those
those who play unsucoessnug Whether this feeling
Dc right wrong, IL is useless 10 discuss; To
certain degree Is involuntary il is not for mOrtals
TO settle whether we Will nave OF nOt nature settles
Tor thar, within moderate limits We must have IT,
But the admiration OF wealth in many countries goes
Tar beyond this; ceases 10 regard in any degree the
skin OF acqusitiOn 1t respects wealth in the hands OF
is simple envy and love Of heap OF gold as heap OF
gold From this aristocracy preserves There is
where poor de vl OF a millionaire in
OF as in England" The experiment is tried every day
and every DAY il proved that money alone-oney pur
ei stB,pie-wil not buy London Society" Money is
Kept Gown, and 50 TO say cOwed by the predominant
authority OF a different power.
In regard to the objection that after all this is no
great gain, and that worship for worship the wor-
ship of money good rs the worship Of rank the
author remarks that granting this 10 be the case,
II is great gain 10 society to have two idols
in the competition of idOlators, the true worship
gets a chance But it is not true be maintains that
the reverence for rank base the for
money.
AS the world has gone, has been halfheredi-
1t is the style of society; 1t in the daily spoken
preston is in their occasional written intercourse In
Teverencing wealth we reverence not man, but ap
pen0lx 10 a man In reVcrenCinR inherited nobility,
the faculty of bringing ont what Is in one The nncyn
sciOus grace OF life may he in the middle classes finely
hammered persons born everywhere but ought to
Seh in bis BeGSes he has not % some OF IT, 0 II 0s Is T p6E
Biological possession Of the race though it sometimes
wanting In the individual.
The worshipof rank according to Mr. Bagehot, has
another Tedeeming element 1t presents a safeguard
against the idoatry Of office, which tue continent
Of Europe aud especially in France, has the effect
OF famalignant superstition But in England it is only
the great offices which require intellect for their exer-
else that enjoy any social prestige great grocer de-
spises the eXcseman, aud what in many countries
would be thought impossible the excseman envies the
grocer. The respect to rank, however the author
admits is not favorable to intellectual activity
whatever good il may do in other respects.
great part Of the best" English people keep their
mind in state OF decOrOus dulluess They maintain
their dignity they Obeyed; they good and char
table 10 their dependents But they have no notion OF
play Of mind no conception that the charm OF society
depends It. They think cleyeruess ancand have
a constant though needless horror Of being honght TO
OF II. SO much does TINS stiff dignity the
tone, that the few Engshmen capable O social briaucy
mostly secrete it. They reserve il FOR persons who'll
they trHst, and whom they know to be capabe OF
appreciating its nu0noeN But good government well
worth a great deal Of social duuess The Identified tor
pOr of English society is Inevitable we give pfece
dence, mot 10 the cleyeres classes bn to the oldest
classes, and We have seen how useful that is.
Ner is the glory of rank at the present day in En-
gland what it once was.
The prestige OF the arstocracy S. as every one
knows Immensely less than II hundred years
fifty years since. Two great movements-tbe two
greatest Of modern sOcetyhdve been uufavOable to IT,
The rise Of industrial wealth in countless forms has
brought competitor which has generally more mind,
and which be supreme u for awkward
Dess and intellectual gene. Every day companies
railways, debentures and our shares, tend
and to multiply these surroundings OF the arisOc
raey, and in time they will nude IT, And while this
degrowth has come up the astocracy have come down
They have less standing than they
have Their power is in their theatrical exhibition,
their state. But society is every day becoming less
stately. AS our great sttirs has Observed last
Duke OF st. Davds used 10 cover the north road with
his carrages iandadies aud waters bowed before him
The present Duke speaks away from railway station,
smoking cigar, In q DrOughham." The ari5tOcraCy
cannot lead the old fc hey would they ruled by
stronger power They suffer from tendency Of all
modern society 10 raise the average, end 10 lOwercOm
pdtauyey, aud perhaps absolutely, 20 lower-the snm
nit. As the pCturesQuCncss. the featurCness, Of
cety dmnshes aristOcrdcy loses the single instrument
of its peculiar power.
The House Of Lords as described By the author,
owes much Of its power 10 its independent position
The judgment Of the Lords may not be 50 good
Judgment as that Of the Commons, but it is en-
phatically their own judgment. The House Of Lords
is accessible TO no social bribe But many members
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