Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-05-25

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~as the case in the Puritan period, moral
astoess 10 . positive Tccomuendation
with the great body Of practical men,"
This feeling and tendency are promoted
by nothing more than by the crimes and
fall Of men IL the highest standing.
Their fate fosters distrust Of the expres~
sion of noble ideas - cant, and of heroic
endeavOr as sentimental folly. The same
critic of Walpole says, felicitously, that
in bis time IAN honest mau meant one
who honestly disclaimed elevation of
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We are familiar in our day with the
standard. We ell know the man who
does not pretend to be any better than
other men, who hopes that be is Is honest
as his fellows, and who 10 satisfied with
something less than tho millennium. His
sneer 10 gratifying to the great mass Of
men who accept the common standards
of conduct and the usual practices of
those around them, and who do so be-
cause stepping up is always moro difficult
than slipping along. Tho suggestion Of
progress Is always disagreeable to those
who are content to stand still, especially
If conscience re enforces the argument Of
progress. And such people welcome
eagerly sncer which implies that the
advocate Of progress is aselfsh Nav
worm. "Jim Fisk" could have turned
tie laugh of his comrades on John MIL
ton. But that was of little importance
until John Milton should justify the
sneer. Then it Would become general
calamity. And this is precisely what the
respectable criminals Of the last year have
done. They have discredited character
itsclf, and made the appeal to it feebler.
Harpsr's Magazine. a71 't' ~ .'t