Camp Fires And Guide Posts a book of Essays And Excursions
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I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all. If government knew how, ,1 should like to see it check, not multiply the population. When it reaches 207 CAMP-FIRES its true law of action, every man that is bom will be hailed as essential. Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscien...ce. In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much underestimated. 'Clay and clay dififer in dignity,' as we find by our preferences every day. What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing ofif ! as if one man who votes wrong, going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away; or as if your presence did not tell in more ways than in your vote. Suppose the three hundred heroes of Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians; would it have been all the same to Greece, and to history .'' " Now whether this be an example of what George Meredith calls a "rough truth" or not, I cannot say; but it is certainly a specimen of plain dis- course.
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