Word: feeblest
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...vital points of ability and fitness, but on artificial considerations, as society standing or what not. It is to be observed, however, that so long as societies exist of such size as to divide the class into large sections, and which can be considered as rivals in the feeblest meaning of that term, so long, presumably, society feeling will color the elections. And so far as this is the generous competition of each society to produce the greatest number of suitable candidates to draw the suffrages of the class, who shall say that this artificial stimulus in eliciting the best...