The Hickman courier., 1874-02-28

is appropriately cdlieQ JOHN Dull De-
tween John Bull aud other animals
there is a peculiar af1inan g
horse seems more nearly =.
in England than in z7pl
Punch, the great exponbn
tional characteristics, SCI
companion dogged do
ladies in England lavish
of their affections -
poodles and net en-
--sasst y. - -
is almost as popular IN
horse race, and the OK
prosper in that island as
sef and mutton are mo-
consumed in England tha4
and spread over the land
halo of succulent substanti9
is often mis- taken for gre 4.
when it merely represents q supefa-
bundance of beef. The cattle dealers
who may be said to keep stalls In everA
English stomach, would be in constant
state of mutiny If the meat were not
seasoned with strong libations of half
and-half stout, ale, porter, sherry al.
port wine. The Englishman, high on
loss, carries with him a flavor of all
these fat morsels and juicy ingredieptS
The English heart, rather cold
humanity, warns up toward -
The tears shed by Jacques over
wounded stag are national tears.
agony of Sterne over the unfortusN
donkey is a national agony. HuInHSs
beings may rot like rats, but there are
numerous societies for the protection OF
cattle. There are women IN England,
of very hard natures, who make mon
strous cats the object of their special
Tro-lTcl, on
dotes upon her hideous grimalkin as
the noblewoman upon her graceful
pony. In no other country is there
such a passion for Newfoundland dogs.
The Engfishman is proud of things
which are perfectly plain and intelligi-
BILE, and in which he can invest his af-
fections without compromising himself
in any way. This can be done with
impunity with the lower animals, bat
not with man, In whom there are higher
elements. The Englishman stiffens to-
ward his fellow-men in the same pro
portion that he unbends toward .brutes.
The heavens, as if indignant cat the
exaggerated idolatry in England Of all
that is animal and earthly, are constant
ly frowning upon Albion but dense as
their fogs are, they are not denser than
the clouds which these peculiarities
give to the social atmosphere. The re-
alities of life are hard everywhere, but
nowhere harder than in England, where
all the avenues Of sentiment and fancy
are shnt up by the Chinese wall of stern,
unrelenting, stubborn facts, and whore
all the more lovely attributes OF heart
and i'm gination are drowned in the
RJooI-- Of -3a-lr s-AaliEiHsa--An a. SE.anAsI
[rl,ich they share with their country
\ raF1a1TT0r1 ~ rrar1TTTs
oc4inst the treadmill prosiness of the
land. This imparts a terrible vehe-
. lnence to their feelings, and makes the
literature of the country as distIn-
guished for its brilliancy as the daily
life of the people is notorious for its
dullness. In a untry where common
place Is the lule and originality the ex-
ception, society presents the appearance
of a dead level and the great states
men of the nation seem to soar so high
towards heaven, because the masses of
their countrymen vegetate in the earth.
They tower up like pyramids on a prai-
RE or Himalayas upon plains; bN they
are, after all, only local phenomena and
are rather conspicuous islanders than lof-
ty men They are part tand parcel of z g
land and not of universal humanity. Ma
cauly writes history as If Adam had
been whig, and as if the deluge had
swamped all platforms except that of
Me bourne and Russell. When an
Englishman speaks of foreign country
he never refers to the impression it
makes on him as a man, but as an Eng
lishman. The very God whom Eng
ishmen adore seems rather to be an Eng
lish thau an universal deity. The Old
Testament Is, on the whole, more con-
craTaTa1 70 nm. EtnrrfT. hY,,oyR Nbov, h.
This is but natural in q country where
poverty IS crime, and where law is as
revengeful as Nemesis, as infexible as
fate.
The English are notoriously unablnl
to cope with the Germans IN original
and depth of thought with the Fre1
and Irish In ingenuity and brilliancz
mind with the Italians and Span
the zigor of noble mann
with the graces of almost womanIy ten.
dergess and with thu Americans in
quiAness of perception, in practical
genius, and that executive power which I
produces great ideas ready-made for
action. Now, in order to relieve them
selves from this uncomfortable fact of
the English have, from time
20 time immemorial, assumed a Thorough
a1th in their own superiority over at
1ther people. It has besssne asSa37V
,ult to root out this connects ass
he land of England from the grasl
lristocracy, or from the bisls
at Hvings. Probably the
# London by a French eT
rmy and the quartering -
roops In the clubs of Pail -nla
rave, -Csrosycz-Ur, ---s<'zsa. .shf<s
quares, and IN the cou1sr -
he aristocracy and thef
e welcomed by every 81
,nglish philanthropist sB,
lessing in purging EnglaIk
ffensiye arrogance ; and alf
cious persons may questio
ency OF such cure, there Is n 70 efei
lat the truly philosophicalm mind WOULD 4
all the experiment with delight.
England has taken a prominent part
the history of civilization. but no
ore SO than America, Germany and
rance. With all our appreciation of
ngland we cannot join in the school
oy rnptures of Anglican New England 8
5 over the 'smother country" or in y
nerson's provincial ecstscy at IL
ght OF the commercial and telritoI
lendor of the merchant princes
bles OF Britain. There are MIND
at cannot get over the swaddlinl
,thes of Magma Charta, and that seem
have an aristocratic predilection fer -
IS pledge of progress, because it was d
ested from the crown, not by the u
s sss OF the people but by the masses f
the mobiles. b
Upon the excessive democracy of e
ierica the excessive aristocracy of W
gland acts with MANY minds. as a th
sort of conservative sedative snd ia
eneFer they are disgusted here with dc
} thing or another they seek an arti- WI
al relief in patrician effusion about sh
le English gentleman . Now tbers de
ertainly no country in Che world tn
b so many Observation-Disclosures gen Le
nen carrying their ordinary minds pr
> such self-possessed steadipess as cal
Englard. In originality of ideas
? are not superior to the potman who
5 their ale, or to the PEASANT who oo-
lghs their soil and woe to tlsm g., g ]
hey were, for they wonId be ssnt tass
fwith to bedlam as arrapt Innafics n n
coventry as incorrigible eccentric, Az
+ This mental lethargy acts upon oar