In short, sir, we have the besetting sin of a young community--imitation.

In our case the imitation is not always happy, either; it being necessarily an imitation that is founded on descriptions.

If the evil were limited to mere social absurdities, it might be laughed at--but that inherent desire of distinction, which is the most morbid and irritable, unhappily, in the minds of those who are the least able to attain anything more than a very vulgar notoriety, is just as active here, as it is elsewhere; and some who have got wealth, and who can never get more than what is purely dependent on wealth, affect to despise those who are not as fortunate as themselves in this particular.

In their longings for pre-eminence, they turn to other states (Leaphigh, more especially, which is the beau ideal of all nations and people who wish to set up a caste in opposition to despotism) for rules of thought, and declaim against that very mass which is at the bottom of all their prosperity, by obstinately refusing to allow of any essential innovation on the common rights.

In addition to these social pretenders, we have our political Indoctrinated." "Indoctrinated! Will you explain the meaning of the term ?" "Sir, an Indoctrinated is one of a political school who holds to the validity of certain theories which have been made to justify a set of adventitious facts, as is eminently the case in our own great model, Leaphigh.