Of all ways of gratifying a democratic community that we have ever heard of, the institution of hereditary rank seems the most singular,--supported, as we presume that rank would be, by primogeniture and landed settlements.
Morley questions the logic of hereditary rank as a means to satisfy democratic values.
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Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.
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