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If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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O life unlike to ours! Who fluctuate idly without term or scope,...
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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
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