Word: aristocratism
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Renan was intellectually an aristocrat. He looked down on all inferiors and be lived that man should not attempt any good deed unless he could be sure of moving the whole mass of people. This made him scornful of all ordinary...
...next article "Two Types," is first, the thoughts of an anarchist and secondly the thoughts of an aristocrat: There seems to be little point to the piece, and we can but regret that such sides of human character, though merely fancied and only in a college paper should be put into print...
...profoundly dependent on the compass of our early studies. He that leaves the school for the shop at thirteen is on one platform. He that spends the years from thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work at thirteen, and those that are born not to work at all, are alike his inferiors. He should be able to spread light all around. He it is that may stand forth before the world as the model...
...business. The depth of winter is never a pleasant time to travel, and especially is it a dreary task in the French railways. My only companion in the carriage was a fine-looking middle-aged man, who had all the appearance not only of a gentleman, but of an aristocrat, and who, after learning that I was an Englishman, conversed most fluently and delightfully in my own tongue during the whole of our long ride. Just before arriving he handed me his card, and said that he should call on me the next day and see if there...
...vaunted savoir faire of our young aristocrat supplied him with a timely caution. It rightly taught him that it was not the season to attack democracy at the time of the "heated discussion" of class elections, when the earnestness of the conflict had engraved the battle-cry on the minds of every one. This aristocratic quality would have done him a greater service, we think, had it shown him that the incapacity he confesses, to under stand a great principle in its larger working, is not the best evidence of his capacity to criticise it in a case of less...