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Show CARLYLE CALLED US BORES Equality Developed Monotony of Type in Country's Second Epoch, Was His Assertion. Prof. Max Farrand of Yale, leetur-1 lng on "American Traits" as developed I in the epoch of 1812 to 1S40, said I at Lowell institute recently, the Kan-1 Bas City Star observes: "Equality of status Is, of course, H not a characteristic, but a condition; f yet it is a factor which has led to the development of important Ameri-t, can traits. Here, where, If absolute j equality did not exist, at least there was far greater equality than there, v was anything else; where, if there waH not equality of opportunity for all,! there was at least some opportunity for all, the European relationship ofijj superior and inferior classes could not J long continue. The 'Inferior' of today were too likely to become the 'supe-S rior' of tomorrow. "This meant, of course, a great stimulus stim-ulus to independence, and developed the people's self-reliance. Independence Independ-ence is one of the most conspicuous American traits, and it has been not without unpleasant manifestations. It has induced a lack of respect for authority au-thority and for elders, and the existence exist-ence of equality has tended to a remarkable re-markable monotony among the people who developed these opportunities, till, Carlyle could say: 'Americans havei begotten, with a rapidity beyond recorded re-corded example, 18,000,000 of the greatest great-est bores ever Been in the world before.' be-fore.' "Yet in contrast with this deadly equality, the existence of opportunity for all individuals also led to a strong individualism among Americans, giving giv-ing each man a chance to develop what was in him. Hence our love for the self-made man, and hence the American devotion to leaders rather than to principles." |