The Day of The Snob Is Gone Bg

Jacft Dionne

This is a grand old time, in a grand old world. Out of the haze of chaotic centuries when right and wrong played hide-and-seek, with right generally hiding in order that it might not be entirely destroyed,-has come this time that Burns hoped for when "A man's a man for a' that."

The time has finally arrived in this old world when he who confers the most benefits is the most respected; and that never was true before, in all the history of the world.

It doesn't make any difference who your father was; the question is, who is his son?

There is only one nobility-CHARACTER.

There is only one aristocracy-INTELLECT.

Through all the world's history, the meanest, smallest-souled, most useless human, has been the SNOB.

But this is the first time in that history when the world has come to recognize that fact.

The day of the snob is gone.

What have you done? What can you do? THIS is the test of the world today.

If Abraham Lincoln had ever for one moment showed a disposition to shroud his humble origin, he would have been lost to history; but because he gloried in what he WAS, his name flames bright across the sky of all history.

"You have no name," mocked his fellow school-boys to Erasmus, the boy whose origin was clouded. "Then I shall make myself one," proudly replied he who was to become the greatest scholar of his age.

Keats was the son of a hostler, but he became one of the world's great poets, proud of his lineage, such as it was.

Transcendent genius; the great minds that have remade the world since its inception; have generally come from humble origin-generally from hovels. No cabin is safe from it, but seldom has a mansion produced it.

Socrates was of the humblest origin. But Plato, the aristocrat, knelt at his feet throughout his life; and after his death, made his words immortal.

"We are all children in the Kindergarten of God, and there will come after us greater men who will understand things that we cannot." So spoke Humboldt, one of the great thinkers of all time.

When Rome was in its glory, the proudest title within that land was: "Civis Romanus Sum" ("I am a Roman Citizen"). No empty title that. He had to prove it by his deeds and his life.

The proudest, most comprehensive, most geiruine title that the world has ever known is, t'I am an American citizen." It encompasses and reflects more of real good than any other title has ever done. You must earn and deserve it by BEING one; a REAL one.

It is made up of CHARACTER, INTELLECT, LOYALTY, TOLERANCE.

Snobbishness is utterly foreign to its make-up.

It entails obligations and confers privileges that mankind never knew before.

Let us be eternally grateful.