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SOME EXPLANATIONS--A HUMAN APPETITE--A DINNER AND A BONNE.
BOUCHE.
The brigadier and myself remained behind to discuss the general bearings of this unexpected event.
"Your rigid demand for motives, my good sir," I remarked, "reduces the Leaplow political morality very much, after all, to the level of the social-stake system of our part of the world." "They both depend on the crutch of personal Interests, it is true; though there is, between them, the difference of the interests of a part and of the interests of the whole." "And could a part act less commendably than the whole appear to have acted in this instance ?" "You forget that Leaplow, just at this moment, is under a moral eclipse.
I shall not say that these eclipses do not occur often, but they occur quite as frequently in other parts of the region, as they occur here.
We have three great modes of controlling monikin affairs, viz., the one, the few, and the many--" "Precisely the same classification exists among men!" I interrupted.
"Some of our improvements are reflected backward; twilight following as well as preceding the passage of the sun," quite coolly returned the brigadier.

"We think that the many come nearest to balancing the evil, although we are far from believing even them to be immaculate.

Admitting that the tendencies to wrong are equal in the three systems (which we do not, however, for we think our own has the least), it is contended that the many escape one great source of oppression and injustice, by escaping the onerous provisions which physical weakness is compelled to make, in order to protect itself against physical strength." "This is reversing a very prevalent opinion among men, sir, who usually maintain that the tyranny of the many is the worst sort of all tyrannies." "This opinion has got abroad simply because the lion has not been permitted to draw his own picture.

As cruelty is commonly the concomitant of cowardice, so is oppression nine times out of ten the result of weakness.