...eal bouquet of life, I advise you to procure yourself a grandson, whether by adoption or theft. . . . Get one, and the Nation will no longer offend anybody. This was a pretty broad hint, but E. L. Godkin was not the man to pay much attention to the advice of Lowell or anybody. In fact, he seems to have won Lowell over after this to his own way of thinking. Lowell certainly became more conservat...