The Penn's Grove record., 1883-04-21
A~MER1CANIzED ENGLIsHRy.

many Die articles IN lllt EllSllcl HldS
aziues advocating peasant proprietor
ship in land and opposing landlordism
and the social system based upon it in
England. lie now publishes a pamph-
let in which hp s~peculates as to the pro-
bable effect on the world, within the
next century, of the continued growth
of the English-speaking democracy, or
"EnelisEry, as he calls it. He esti-
matess the population of the United
states in 1890 at 500, 000, 600; that Of
Canada at $1,000, 900; Australia, As
900, 600; South Africa, 10000, 900; and
the United Kingdom 20 1000, 000-in all
about 1000, 900, 900 of English-speak-
ing men, living under substantially the
same institutions, and cherishiug the
same social aud political ideals. The
800. 600, 600 which he gives Us will not
I've confined to the Union as it now is.
They will extend over the whole hemis-
pheIe. and will, moreover, flow back
into England and settle under a new
land reigne in that country, among the
restored yeomanry to which their fore
fathers belonged, and which will be-
come, after landlordism has disappeared
the foremost class in English society.
in like manner the English settlements
i'll South Africa, lalready American in
their ideas and mannersl, viii spread
over Southern Africa, drive the natives
back towards the equator, and open
''the dark continent to civilization;
placing its enormous resources at the
disposal of the most advanced of the
human race. After all this, a thou
sand millions of the flower of the race
will have taken pos seSsiOn Of and be
living happily in the most favored
places of the earth.
But what sort of society will the
"Englishry" establish? What moral
and social standards, what notions
about life and death, things present
and things to come will SWAY this
"EnglislIry." The manners and ideas
of a people are their chiefest mark.
Whatthen will chiefly mark these thou
sand millions? Mr.. Ziucke assumes
that their manners and ideas will be
funda, mentally the same throughout,
although he maintains that the differ
ent geographical distribution will pro-
duce variety enough to worry those en-
emies of democracy who predict a dull
and dreary monotOny as the result of
its triumph. He thinks our American
farmer will furnish the type of the new
society, and says of the general result:
among these thousand millions
there will be none without any ciyili-
cation at all; none with an i~ncapacity
for getting beyond a low state of civili-
cation; none Whose civilization suffered
, an early and permanent arrest; no saw
= ages, no serps, nc slaves; not many
drones OF Sybarites. There will be
1000, 600, eco who viii not only be able
to read and write, but also be disposed
to turn these Instruments of knowledge
TO excellent account. They will have
homes of their own and property
enough of the very best and most educa
tive kind-that is, in land-to yield to
their intelligent industry sufficient
means of support. They will have no
social erpolfsical superiors, and there
. foRe will manage themselves their own
affairs: Society and legislation and the
administration Of affairs will be to
them, as nature intended them to be.
most effective means of education. Nor
will there be among them any consider
able percentage who have received, or
are receiving, or who are looking for.
ward to receive a pauper's maintenance
and who therefore are intellectually
useless and morally injurious to society
The lives of the vast majority of them.
that will he spent in the cultivation of
their W land with their " hands.
will be in harmony with nature; and
that not or the hard terms of the Eur
Opean peasant, but in the well-provided
fashion of the open handed American
farmer. 1t will then he clear to every
ones apprehension that it is not mere
Iy the faculty of speech and the forma-
ton of the hand that constitute a man.
but in addition the possession of a por-
ton of this earth, the common inheri-
tance of all, at least for a home upon it
OF his own, if not more or less for his
support; and that men are not so tru,Y
mel Is mere drudges when they are
obliged to spend their lives without
ever attaining to homes of their own
the home being the chiefest of Natures
~humanizers; and in c%ultivating other
peoples land without hope-life with
out hope being death in life. The set
Element in this fashion of vast CONT
nents will, indeed, be a moral renewal
of the face of the earth. 1t will even
give a new aspect to mans relations to
tie unseen world. 1t will be the bring
ing in ora new dispensation, of a new
earth, and of a new heaven"
Morality, Mr.. Zincke thinks, will
have a tremendous force in this society,
because there will be only one morality
for all, and not a Seperate morality for
each class as now, and the one morality
will be supported by the opinion Of all.
The conscience of the community will
lie II power, as yet unknown in the
world. Women will play a larger part
in the work of society than they have
ever done. No pursuits will be favored
by endOwments or bounties, 50 that
none of the talent of the community
will be diverted into useless or false