Papers, 1882-1901 (bulk 1883-1899) . -^WfJttitfmrtBjSil^. NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. TRUE ARISTOCRACY. In an address delivered at Chautauqua, August 6th,1S90, Col. T. W. Higginson says:— The aristocracyof birth is dying out. Three-quarters of the Englishpeerages date back no farther than the ArtericanRevolution. The principle of hereditary legislation,and the laws of entail and primogeniture, are givingplace to the aristocracy of achievement. This newaristocracy has marked advantages. European castlesspeak of human suffering, concentrated cruelty and? oppression. The American S
Papers, 1882-1901 (bulk 1883-1899) . -^WfJttitfmrtBjSil^. NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. TRUE ARISTOCRACY. In an address delivered at Chautauqua, August 6th,1S90, Col. T. W. Higginson says:— The aristocracyof birth is dying out. Three-quarters of the Englishpeerages date back no farther than the ArtericanRevolution. The principle of hereditary legislation,and the laws of entail and primogeniture, are givingplace to the aristocracy of achievement. This newaristocracy has marked advantages. European castlesspeak of human suffering, concentrated cruelty and? oppression. The American System represents thingsthat bring people together^railroads, steamboats, fac-tories, iiwe?itions—the works of peace, and not of represents good deeds, helps the world ; while thearistocracy of birth threatens to destroy it by violence. Harvard University has just conferred the degreeof on Mr. Alfred T. White, of Brooklyn, not forany literary or professional attainments, but becausehe had erected magnificent improved tenement hous
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