Show TO BE IN GOOD SOCIETY culture and to have precedence over carth and rank high moral character and education it be of book lore or that of observation and good example polish if manner and good habits are the requisites of good society one whose deas of social equality were rather democratic than exclusive saya the philadelphia press was heard to remark one man is bom just as good as another and a great deal better than some unless the son of a gentleman be a gentleman he is no more entitled to the name suggesting refinement than a man is entitled to the name of general whose father before him was a beneral pe one must win his own laurels or go uncrowned birth to a marked decree is an accident and those who are considered to be well born are oftentimes the most objectionable elements of society and the roost dangerous associates one need but watch closely the daily record of those on bogli aides of the atlantic whose birth gives them prestige in society to prove eliat education and cultivation ti of high morals go further toward biking refined society than all the good or blue blood that ever flowed through the veins of royalty and the nobility of course it would be the height of absurdity to argue that all men are born equal and would be as illogical to argue against the superiority of blood fd animals of alic race course over the ordinary draft horse however the nobility of culture and refinement should have precedence over the noall icv of birth and rank |