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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 25 (search)
exaltation of a great public character, but hardly of a station. For there is no station which any American might not aspire to hold; and it would be the spirit in which he held it that made it exalted. This is at least the American habit of mind, and the interest we habitually take in what are called exalted stations in other countries is like that we feel in the Blue-coat School or the picturesque Beefeaters who do duty at the Tower of London, or the powdered footmen who are gradually vanishing from the streets of that city. The English habit of mind is different; as Matthew Arnold has said, it worships inequality. I remember a poor English woman, in an American city, who was thrilled with gratitude for a visit from a certain good-natured old lady, the widow of a very respectable physician. Only think, she said, Mrs. Came to see c — that great lady of rank! It seemed as if one born in the British Islands could not be quite contented without an exalted station to reverence