The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-11-05

who have deserved well give birth I
children that are of little value in til
conduct of affairs, a hereditary clas
then becomes exceedingly and yer
properly offensive to the democrati
spirit. But society, by its ewn ma
ture, and by necessity which is OF
iginal and organic, classifies. Ii yo
were to level 4 thousand times, ne,
adjustments would put some high u.
and some low down, aud some inter
mediate. Where the population
small and widely scattered, this ten
dancy is less obvious, hut it become
apparent, this classifying spirit, y
population crowds around center
as competition brings out men an
compares them one with another, y
men help each other, and so coalesc
and act in common ends and commo
ranks. The general influences unde
which classes form are professions
and industrial, that is to say, com
mon pursuits. Then there are affini
ties intellectual that draw other me
together, or affinities of taste, or SO
cial sffini,ies, and each of them or al
of them conformity act to classif,
men. We consider where our domi
nant faculties are most likely to b.
gratfied; we do not love to go anon,
those who do not believe as We be
lieve, and against whom our faith i
constantly beating with a correspond
ing rebound. We do not like to car
ry our tastes where they confron
conflicting tastes, nor our affections
where we find counter tastes and az
fections, and there are combativ,
tendencies and destructive influences
Men cannot be company for all, onl,
for some; and those some they sc
lect according to one law or anothe
of qualification, either Of power, o
intellect, or taste, or affection, or NOR
al sentiments.
The fullest and largest conception
of man is one that measures socie
ty vertically, from top to bottom, an,
has something of everything in him
He is the best man whom no maj
passes without having more or les
interest in him: all that is animal il
the most animal has some response il
me. There is nothing that concerns
any human being that should not b,
understood and sympathized with. s.
that, although one may feel that h
belongs to a given class more tina,
to any other, yet everybody, if he b.
large enough, will feel that he ha
some sort of sympathy with ever,
class of society. from the top to til,
bottom of it. There is nobody tha
lives or brea hes that ought n", Il
touch some ol your sympathics some
where. Men, then, ma, belong u
several classes. Men If only n,
cass may lie vtrs conte..t AID ex
tremely proper, but the, are ver,
apt to b. lean. narrow and und"vel
oped There no one Glass tha
contains evers thing, a.d 10 be shu
up in class is like being shut up il
q prison. Veg tables differ from an
imals by li,ni'a ion in this one re-
spect, that they cannot walk AN.
have to stay in on, place. The ami
mails can, and hey gather AS they go
and by locomotion they grow super
or to the vegetables A m,n ,ha
can be happy only in one place is ;
kind of vegetable. Laughter. Ane
by locomotion, or the capacity of go
ing from one place to another, "
and down-all through society--he
indicates higher organ'za'ion; he il
= higher nature, and ought to be /,
better. Men who habitually consor
with men who represent certain taste,
and tendencies of theirs are always
specialized to such degree that the,
don't represent humanity; they are
specimens; not men. They are re.
markable, just as the specimens are
which we put on shelves in museum.
queer, odd and strange. Health,
conditions require that, III the forma
tion of these different classes in SO
ciety, there should be perfect ease o.
access and exit. 1t ought not to be
difficult for man to rise into any
class, and it ough ht not to be d,fficul'
for any class to eject man when he
is no longer fit for association. A
community should be as the ocean
where the drops Of water move easi,
ly upon each other, which receives
every river that wants to come into
it, and where every river come,
bringing what sediment it must; ano
the ocean knows how, by agi,a ion
to drop the sediment to the bottom
and purify all it receives, BY such
a social tendancy, by such a necessi.
ty | may say, society works The
greatest advantages.
The members of the higher classe!
stimulate conduct, whether the,
know it or not, and whether the,
will or not. The mere existence j.
society of men that have becone em
inent in any quality at is bright
and beneficent are made exemplars
The law by which society conduct.
itself is that of aspiration, by the
comparison Of men, one with another
of one class with another. In thi.
way the upper class, though they
may be vain, selfish and exclusive
cannot avoid, in some degree, s'imu
lating the lower. An SO it comes to
pass that ambition works by love,a
the man who all his life long vii
earn his bread by the sweat of hi.
brow, and, beginning too late,give VI
the idea of becoming anything him
self but day laborer; but he loves
his boys aud he loves his girls, and
sends them fondly to school, saying
they shall be great men and ladies
and all his life he disinteres'edly toll.
to give them that culture that shal
lift them to the society to which b.
cannot aspire. One single bank in ;
village makes the inhabitants accus
toned to accuracy, and is better thar
q pulpit for some things. Laugh
ter. A railroad station in yillag,
teaches men to be exact aud pnnc,u
al, or they must stop at home. 4
village that l know was once slat
ternly and slovenly, with its fence
all down, and time, the enemy o