They reasoned from it, and came to sound conclusions.

I felt them to be my superiors.

On the other hand, I have not felt the same with "our senators, rulers, and lawgivers." They are for the most part deficient in the liberal mind.' 'Ha! good, so far.

How do you account for it ?' said Lady Charlotte.
'I read it in this way: that the world being such as it is at present, demanding and rewarding with honours and pay special services, the men called great, who have risen to distinction, are not men of brains, but the men of aptitudes.

These men of aptitudes have a poor conception of the facts of life to meet the necessities of modern expansion.