Post-Prandial Philosophy

Grant Allen

Capitolo 6

thrown out edge the most greater part of the of sea it ballasts foolish that we know as grammar. It
you/he/she has only now gotten heavy from his/her grotesque and ridiculous spelling--one of
the absurdest among all the attempts English and absurd to compromise. The
pressure of the newest oratories will force him/it to make human wreckage of that
you also encumber;  and then the language of Shelley and Newton it will march before
undisputed to the conquest of humanity.

Me the pen these comments, I hope, "without prejudice." Patriotism is a vernacular
vice of which I have never been guilty.




II.

_IN LA MATTER OF ARISTOCRACY._


Aristocracies as a rule all all over the world consists, and always has
consisted, of Barbaric conquerors or their descendants to that they remain
the last, on the average of examples, to a lower degree of civilisation
and morals that the democracy among which they lives.

I know that this sight is to of the opposite extension to the ideas common of people
to great (and especially of those particular European people that
"dearly the loves a gentleman") as to the relative position of aristocracies and
the democracies in the flowing staircase of human development. There is a ground of common ownership
although completely unfounded belief that knocks on the world that the
aristocrat is best in intelligence, in the culture, in arts, in manners,
what a the plebeian to the agenda. The fact is, while being, as every barbarians a
vainglorious creature, he has continued to affirm so long his really depth
the superiority from birth to the world around him--a superiority as of fine
clay common porcelain--that the world around him finally has indeed
started to accept him/it to his/her his/her own evaluation. The most greater part of people English in
detail thinks that a gentleman was born a best judge of portraits and
wines and books and behavior that the human average of us. But history
it shows us the exact opposite. It is a simple historical fact, demonstrable from
simple enumeration that almost all the aristocracies that the world ever has
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