New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-02

with elf the world into tho host shape possible
upon our own peculiar principles. We In sort OF
gruous commingllng Of the old and the new. This
mistake is less hopeful than the former. To b
drunken with delight Of freedom is nobler form Of
folly Is at least less ignobe form. than petulane
discomfort with It's limitations.
A beautiful and brilliant woman who meant not
to he unpatrotc but was resolved at oil hazards to
be arstocratic, would not send her son to certain
school because the sons Of workingmen wero there
She wholly approved, she even aDplauded, tho
workingmen's sons Tor being there, but she pre-
tlcmen's sons. This was not wise either personally
periodically. For this nation is. has been. and
i'll continue TO he. in the MAN, in the hands not Of
gentlemen's sons but Of gentlemen The poor boy
who has eagerness and energy to rise above mere
manua! to menta! work, who FORCES his way
college, through his profession Is almost sure to be
admirable il not eminent IN business. Or politics,
or law. science. and the lady is by and by going
to be delighted to have her daughter marry him.
Then it will prove altogether agreeable II his early
school association with "gentlenens sons shah
have given him the sn;s 0 OF familiarity With tts
acquisition would mpart. which are not Of the
slightest Importance which are not even matter Of
noticeable uncomfortable .rnconvenient. disad-
vantageOus. And as the lady's son may benefit tho
poor boy bv communicating to him bis own superior
grace and dignity of manner. 80 may he equally
benefit by observing in the poor boy the resolution
irmness, self ienial. concentration which self
respecting poverty is almost sure to teach Under
contact is most desirable The more and the earlier
tends to level up should be encouraged. The boy
who is pushing his own way through school 10
heading for the front. Attended or not BY tho
DR.. 1horold, Bishop Of Rochester, England.
visiting public schools. declares himself to have
been greatly struck with the intclsence and good
both Of a political and a social character are
reached by the commingllns of all grades OF society
in the free schools"
Family prize is q natural and honorable pride.
An Inheritance of noble deeds is the most valuable
beIuest that father can make to son. A trans
only difference between the savage and the civilized
man. But in the broad analyses OF civilization one
family i as old As anoths EyrIy %sp n tho
We are all at an equal remove from ADAM Some
families have been o little more soitened than
softenina influences. Yet not q mechanics family
in the United States to-day but lives in moro
refined way than any duke OF England five
are not brutally employed as were the titled war
riors Of old England under the Richards and the
Ifenrys. They live far better, are of gentlee
stance of doctrine the common ,Ople are likely to
have a larger proportion Of royal and noble blood
than the higher % ws az
ancestry as Queen Victoria knows about hers. but
sorricr set OF outs, fou'er tange OF scandals no
American citizen would shrink from finding IN HE
family legends than Victorias royal lineage must
publish to a disguised world. Our own families
may have been no better, but obscurity has been
Such rs it is, however. that royal blood has
alm Dst certainly diflused itself through England
and America BY channsls a. utterly lost as ths
preserves tho English throne narrows and widens
and is always slender. But the Legitimate
descendants, OF kings unqnestl1naDiy people tho
his dishonOrable honors blazoned upon his brow TO
the obscure offspring Of the unaeknowedged aud
have been published lately in New-York showing
the families of royal descent there II we'll be
true, but the royal dessents are too numerous even
Whatever ierefOre Of good or evil Is in the royal
system Whatever of stately manner or aigh.bred
courtesy inleres in royal line and is transmitted
with the Prince of Wales. The blood OF the Guephs
aud the Coburgs; savoyard Dukes. German
has come down just as straight through tue bar
maid who was the prey Of their badness as through
the princess who was the medium OF their ambition.
Whatever blood tells it tells through the postern-
gate as loudly as through the Abbey's portals
indeed, the strength that comes from the infusion
S Of who
nhcrits only the weakened force Of q thousand
internmg!ings. SO that the unknown aud un:
England may we'll have taken a reddcr tinge. .
fuller dow. than that which proudly throbs-In
these days must so,newhat iously throb-aaainst
Let us look at things as they are: We have swept
away all political hereditary dist notions. Onr
governing class comprises the whole people. We
have no nobility We arc middle-class nation.
So far as arbitrary divisions go begin where the
English highest class ends. No excuAiveness
changes this fact. The butchers grandson and the
fel ryman grandson and the shoenakeI's grandson
como 10 nearer being dukes or ears by barring
other people ont of their set or reckoning by
= thre, pun ten" My friend who would banish hts
son from the contact of oil but gentlcmen's sons"
would exclude hun thereby from the society vi his
most illustrIous ancestors man who will be
remembered and revered when dukes and earls arc
wing in undstinguished dust. What this nation 10
10 prove is that arbitrary rank is not the guneas
stamp. that true gold has its own unmistakable
glitter; that a nation founded on the rights Of
man on the worth of character. can originate aud
conserve more private happiness, digEity, cutiva.
tIon integrity than nation founded on hereditary
rank IL is not enough that we equal the Older
nations; we must snIpass them. Europe ma, DO
justified in letting we'll enough alone; but we have
not abolished hereditary rule and dispensed with
standing army and established sef-governnent
Tor the sake Of letting great deal better alone!
GAIL HAMILTON.