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Show Aristocracy. What subsists today by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and Is perpetuated by tradition; till at ! last tho hoary nbuso shakes tho gray 1 hairs of antiquity nt us nnd gives it- ' self out ns the wisdom of ages. Thus i tho clearest dictates of reason aro made to yield to tho long succession i of tollies. And this Is the foundation ot tho i aristocratic systom nt the present day. Its stronghold with nil thoso not lm-i lm-i modlately Interested In it, Is tho rover- euco of antiquity. Edward Krorott. i |