The Progress., 1893-12-16


longs to one of the oldest families iii this
city. His grandfather was one of the
signers of the Declaration of indepen-
dence. He belongs to set | cannot
enter. would give half am worth for
his position"
Meantime the middle aged gentleman
on foot unused as he looked at the mag
nificent carriage and equipments. IF |
had some of that mans money, how
many comforts | could bring into our
bare lives"
So the Wall street magnate, who once
made a speech 3! minutes long at din
ner and saw his name i'll the papers next
morning, envies the peculiar glory Of
the man of letters whose name appears
daily.
So the poor man of letters sighs for
/ the gold of his neighbOr and resolves
/ that if he ever gets enough of it he Will
never write another line.
SO when we aspire we hope to climb
| from class TO class.
WE LIVE IN CLASSES.
We think i'll classes; we forget the hu-
man. In proportion as "A class is class,
it is not human. The class idea is the es-
sence of self-that is, brutality. The So
cial ideal in which we are willing to sub
ordinate self to the good of others-this
is the very essence of humanity.
If this exposition can only burn this
great thought into the minds of the mil
lions who saw its glories and wept
with the rapture of its beauty and har-
mony, it We're worth twice $2OO, 600 600
Scarcely a day passes in our history
but that the cable brings us the news of
a divorce suit or separation between an
American girl who married a titled brute
under the impression she was getting
into society. When will they learn
they are getting out of society and join
inga contemplate little mob. the founda-
ton of whose class is the brute part of
mans nature:
The last news we have from the old
world is that the daughter of man
who rose from the ranks of the poor 10
be many times a millionaire and married
title has sued for divorce from her
prince" This prince, we are informed.
is young debauchee, whom no decent
man could allow to enter his home be-
cause of his disreputable habits, and who
boasted that he would yet take the indie.
pendence ont of his American wife.
Well, the American girl who marries
titled brute deserves no better than she
gets. And yet, the pity of it,
But ONE GOOD TITLE.
Let our girls and boys know there is
but one title to nObility-the nobility of
great nature. The man who separates
himself from his fellow men by class or
clique wall is by its limitations SC
much smaller man. The man who be
lieves the sun rises and sets for 400 peo-
pie and aspires to be one of them has
only 400 people, and very small people
at that. i'll the world i'll which he lives
and reduces himself to stray poodle
whining at the gate and hoping for ad-
mission in the dim by and by, when
Ward McAllister or some other great
butler shall smile. This exposition will
teach us here most important lesson.
This triumphant expression of life by
the common people is the sure prophecy
of the day soon TO dawn when they will
rule supreme over the whole social order .
The same reasons make this certain
ty which made the absence of society"
in attendance and management a for
gone conclusion.
First-The vulgar rabble, called the
common people, seem to have practical
monopoly of patriotism. Such far
was first a supreme expression of ma
tional consciousness. Society" has no
national consciousness. Society" takes /
no note of any of the vulgar affairs of
this dirty earth that originate and have
their being outside their "set." The /
smaller the set the more perfect it is
considered.
There is no room in a set for nation, |
and national consciousness among such /
people is as unreasonable a demand as to
suppose them capable of thought.
Vacuity is the ideal aimed at in their
mental development.
PATRIOTISM OF GREAT MINDS.
The love of country is a large thought.
1t cannot dwell in small quarters. Nor
can it live in vacuum. 1t presupposes
1t presuppOses something of /
the human-sOmethingo of Human broth
erhood and fellowship upoa the largest
lines.
To love ones country means of neces-
sity to love the people who make it love-
able. Society" by its very cardinal
principle is forbidden under penalty of
deepest damnation from loving large
of people or from even taking
note mentally of their existence.
Besides society" is forbidden to love
For love is an emotion.
Worse, it is a passion. And emotions
and passions are extremely vulgar! Vio-
lent emotion, indeed any movement of
the soul one degree removed from vacu-
ity, is therefore strictly forbidden.
Hence the only love society" does not
forbid is the love of a poodle.
Not only is it impossible for "society"
to love country because the country CON