| Show our would be thousands of american young men of fair education and excellent possibilities captivated by the pictures of english aristocratic life drawn in english novels are learning to despise tho bimble rational life of the worthy american citizen and to court consideration and vulgar popularity by adopting the habits and leading the useless lives of english lords As is usual in such cases the copy is a caricature of the original the untitled nn titled american lord proves usually to be a vulgar creature having to assert his self conferred lordship by all that is most unattractive most inhumane and most un and that is a good deal in the english aristocrat in england aristocracy has no need to display or to obtrude itself in america it can earst only by display and obtrusion for this reason the american would bo nobleman must necessarily court attention and try to strike the vulgar imagination by the mere accidentale accidentals acci dentals of aristocracy euch as any boorish dives can command houses horses turnouts yachts opera boxes and the like and the vulgar are impressed by such things bow down in servile reverence before them and do their best to make a similar dillay professor thomas davidson in forum |
