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pending/1316: You may be selected to Test a Free Hi Definition TV Friend (pending) |
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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:16:02 -0600 (CST) |
>Number: 1316
>Category: pending
>Synopsis: You may be selected to Test a Free Hi Definition TV Friend
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 10 23:16:02 -0600 2009
>Originator: "HiDefTVTest" <address@hidden>
>Release:
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<From a man without a philosophy no one can expect philosophical completeness.
Therefore I may observe without shame, that in trying to get a distinct notion
of our aristocratic, our middle, and our working class, with a view of testing
the claims of each of these classes to become a centre of authority, I have
omitted, I find, to complete the old fashioned analysis which I had the fancy
of applying, and have not shown in these classes, as well as the virtuous mean
and the excess, the defect also. I do not know that the omission very much
matters; still as clearness is the one merit which a plain, unsystematic
writer, without a philosophy, can hope to have, and as our notion of the three
great English classes may perhaps be made clearer if we see their distinctive
qualities in the defect, as well as in the excess and in the mean, let us try,
before proceeding further, to remedy this omission. It is manifest, if the
perfect and virtuous mean of that fine spirit which is the d
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stinctive quality 94 of aristocracies, is to be found in Lord Elchos
chivalrous style, and its excess in Sir Thomas Batesons turn for resistance,
that its defect must lie in a spirit not bold and high enough, and in an
excessive and pusillanimous unaptness for resistance. If, again, the perfect
and virtuous mean of that force by which our middle class has done its great
works, and of that self reliance with which it contemplates itself and them, is
to be seen in the performances and speeches of Mr. Bazley, and the excess of
that force and that self reliance in the performances and speeches of the Rev.
W. Cattle, then it is manifest that their defect must lie in a helpless
inaptitude for the great works of the middle class, and in a poor and
despicable lack of its self satisfaction.>
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<To be chosen to exemplify the happy mean of a good quality, or set of good
qualities, is evidently a praise to a man; nay, to be chosen to exemplify even
their excess, is a kind of praise. Therefore I could have no hesitation in
taking Lord Elcho and Mr. Bazley, the Rev. W. Cattle and Sir Thomas Bateson, to
exemplify, respectively, the mean and the excess of aristocratic and middle
class qualities. But perhaps there might 95 be a want of urbanity in singling
out this or that personage as the representative of defect. Therefore I shall
leave the defect of aristocracy unillustrated by any representative man. But
with oneself one may always, without impropriety, deal quite freely; and,
indeed, this sort of plain dealing with oneself has in it, as all the moralists
tell us, something very wholesome. So I will venture to humbly offer myself as
an illustration of defect in those forces and qualities which make our middle
class what it is. The too well founded reproaches of my o
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ponents declare how little I have lent a hand to the great works of the
middle class; for it is evidently these works, and my slackness at them, which
are meant, when I am said to refuse to lend a hand to the humble operation of
uprooting certain definite evils (such as church rates and others), and that
therefore the believers in action grow impatient with me. The line, again, of
a still unsatisfied seeker which I have followed, the idea of self
transformation, of growing towards some measure of sweetness and light not yet
reached, is evidently at clean variance with the perfect self satisfaction
current in my class, the middle class, 96 and may serve to indicate in me,
therefore, the extreme defect of this feeling. But these confessions, though
salutary, are bitter and unpleasant.>
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