If you are ever to set republican institutions going, in the Old World--_there_ is the only motive power that will do it!" I was indignant at such sentiments.

"My glorious husband--" I began again.
"Would have died rather than appeal to the meanest instincts of his fellow-creatures.

Just so! There was his mistake.

That's why he never could make anything of the republic.

That's why the republic is the ricketty child of the political family.