Are they your leaders?
Do they lead you in Letters?
in the Arts?
ay, or in Government?
No, not, I am informed, not even in military service! and there our titled witlings do manage to hold up their brainless pates.

You are all in one mass, struggling in the stream to get out and lie and wallow and belch on the banks.

You work so hard that you have all but one aim, and that is fatness and ease!' 'Pardon me, Herr Professor,' I interposed, 'I see your drift.

Still I think we are the only people on earth who have shown mankind a representation of freedom.

And as to our aristocracy, I must, with due deference to you, maintain that it is widely respected.' I could not conceive why he went on worrying me in this manner with his jealous outburst of Continental bile.
'Widely!' he repeated.