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LOYALTY AND LIBERALITY.
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gin in some use or fear, the outward utility of politeness, though not yet making its valuations aright, must keep pace with inward recognition of equality. The American knows no fear, but as often loves to praise as to peck at his superior. Witness the adulation offered our political heroes and our friends, as well as the slander cast upon them.

Are those out of society liberal towards those in it? Many a fashionably dressed and handsome girl has to suffer the reputation of being frivolous and haughty, when she has only a youthful capacity for enjoyment and a love for pretty things. Unkindness is often shown in the feelings towards a popular person It indicates, at least, self-command and tact to be popular, yet a popular person or lecturer is regarded as suitable for the masses. Such narrowness includes self-denunciation; we are part of the masses.

Women, especially, formulate conventional judgments, graduated by approximation to a

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