Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Humanity Always Seeking Equality. [ARTICLE]

Humanity Always Seeking Equality.

Perhaps it is because we know society to be merely a make-believe in its equality that so many society people regard a real equality as impossible, and ate content to remain in the makebelieve. But even the pretense of equality is precious, and it has more honesty in it than the pretense of inequality. There is nothing so essentially false as that; and the superior, when he takes thought, is as distinctly aware of the fact as the inferior. Humanity is always seeking equality. The patrician wishes to be with his equals because his inferiors make him uneasy; the plebeian wishes to be with his equals because his superiors make him unhappy. This fact accounts for Inequality itself, for classed. Inferiority and superiority were intolerable to Bien, and so they formed themselves into classes, that inside of these classes they might have the peace, the comfort, of-equality; and each kept himself to his own class for that reason.—W. D Howells, in Centnrv... ,