The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-24
TRUE ~ARISTOCRACY.
It is a Personal Quality and Possessor
Dignifes Whatever Work He,
Undertakes.

Aristocracy in any true sense is a per-
sonal quality, and not at all a matter Of
family or Of possessions. 1t is an at
tribute whose manifestations are integ-
rity, courtesy and honor. The true aris-
| tocrat is not afraid Of appearing in the
most simple and inexpensive garb, but
he is afraid Of going in debt. He is not
ashamed to work, to economize, to do
any honest and useful thing. Being born
royal, he dignites whatever he under
takes.
1t must bea very poor sort of person
who regards his sole claim to social con-
sideration to lie in the cut Of his gar
/ ment or the locality of his house.
'The best expression of humanity"
This, indeed, is what society should be,
and, as Miss Field so truly says, ''one Of
these days it will be-" A deeper spirit
uality will do away with the pettiness
realize that the earth is full of the riches
Of the Lord, and that each may have all
that his thought, his spiritual attitude,
draws to him. A high purpose is mag
netic and attracts great resources.
Margaret Fuller was especially the
prophecies and priestess of conversation.
as au ART I1ei 1ilenOSnlpS were the
most potent experiences in her life and
were very largely the channels of her
! spiritual activity. James Freeman Clarke
says Of these in her life:
1.-THE insight which Margaret displayed
in finding her friends, the magnetism by
which she drew them toward herself, the
| catholic range Of her intimacies, the in
fuence which she exercised to develop
the latent germ in every character, the
constancy with which she chung to each
| when she had once given and received
confidence, the delicate justice which
kept every intimacy separate, and the
process of TRANSPORTATION which took
place when she met anyone on this noun
tain Of friendship, giving a dazzling
luster to the details Of common life-ali
these should at least be touched upon
and illustrated to give an adequate view
! of her in these relations.
= "She saw when anyone be-
longed to her and never rested until she
came into possession Of her property. =
= = Margaret's constancy to any genu-
inc relation, once established, was sur
prising,
IF her friends aim changed so as to
take them out of her sphere, she was
saddened by it and did not let them 20
without a struggle, but whenever they
continued true to the original Standard
as she phrased it, her affectionate inter-
est would follow them unimpaired
through all the changes Of life. Great
and even fatal errors $50 far as this life
Is co~ncerned) could not destroy my friend
ship for n in whom L am sure of the
kernel of n%obleness.' She never formed
a friendship until she had seen and
known this germ Of good, and afterward
judged conduct by it.
TO this germ Of good, the highest law
Of each individual, she held them true.
RHNf M H. H.
f Tno SO some often asoor judge =, l.. friend lend
duct as if they had never known him,
and allow the inference from the single
act to alter the opinion formed by an in
ductlon from years Of intercourse. From
all such weakness Margaret stood wholly
free. She was the center of a
and whose only affinity consisted in their
all being polarized by the strong attrac-
ton of her mind.
"How she glorifed life to all! How
she displayed always the same marvellous
gift of conversation which afterward
dazzled all who knew her! Those who
know Margaret only by her published
writings know her least; her notes and
letters contain more Of her mind, but it
was only in conversation that she was
perfectly free and at home. = = !"
."Al her friends will unite in the tes-
timony that. whatever they may, have
known Of wit and eloquence in others,
they have never seen one who, like her,
by the conversation Of an hour or two
could not merely entertain and inform,
but make an epoch in ones life.4. We
all dated back to this or that conversa-
ton with Margaret, in which we took a
complete survey Of great subjects, came
to some clear view on a difficult question,
saw u way open before us to a higher
plane of life, and were led to some def
mite resolution or purpose which has had
I. bearing on all our subsequent career.
For Margaret's conversation turned at
such times to life-its destiny, its duty.
she would survey the past and sum w
in a few brief words it's results: she
would then turn to the: future: and by a.
natural order sweep through its chances
and misunderstanding ever into 4
more earnest tone, into. a more serious
view--aRd then bring all to bear on the
opportunities attractive. ss'"ia Eve Events is