Nothing excites our zeal like the principles of the class of which he is a member!" "How! Have you more than one class of the humane ?" "Certainly--the Original, the Representative, and the Speculative." "I am devoured by the desire to understand the distinctions, my dear brigadier." "The Original is an every-day class, that feels under the natural impulses.

The Representative is a more intellectual division, that feels chiefly by proxy.

The Speculatives are those whose sympathies are excited by positive interests, like the last speaker.

This person has lately bought a farm by the acre, which he is about to sell, in village lots, by the foot, and war will knock the whole thing in the head.

It is this which stimulates his benevolence in so lively a manner." "Why, this is no more than a development of the social-stake system--" I was interrupted by the speaker, who called the house to order.