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Show American. Life. It Is a drawback in American llfo for purposes pur-poses of observation and comment that wo aro a peoplo Indlstlnculflhud to tho eyo, unelaoBl-ncd unelaoBl-ncd to tho understanding. Your casual ntranp-or ntranp-or may bo a bank president or a lloor walkor, a bishop or a broker, a Presbytorlun or a Chrlstlnn SolorUUt, or bo by Ijlrth of Iowa or Maine, or live In a holl bedroom or a mansion man-sion with a park front. Ho boars fow marUe of bis opinions or beliefs, political or rollgloua. Yoj can makn but broad Bcncrallzattonti about him. Moreover hln oplnlonn nnd beliefs aro not of a pleco. It It likely that ho wan born Into ono not of conilKIoim, uajhckI through oth-oro, oth-oro, and litis como out a mixture his niako-up composlto, bin outline Indlstlnot. Our clcrtry aro mainly unfrocked, our ofnclalH ununl-formcd. ununl-formcd. Wo have no Ulrica. Our bei;K.irs aro unsatlAfuclry. You cannot toll a Governor from a Concroesman. Your collision with a packnfro-carrylnf: youth may bo a rljrht con-tnct con-tnct with a f Indent of tho roIiooIh, an ucndomlo icbuttal, or but "an Illiterate oncountor" with oomo mcrcontllo adolesccncee, oomo convuyor of parcels. Thero Is nolhlm; nlmoluta about his Kiirb. countonnnco or motlonn. Society moves boforo us dljordorly, nnd our eyea aro bomusod with the clutter. Atlantic. |