People are to-day becoming more and more interested in "the kindred of the wild," and books written by observers of the action of the creatures that live at large in wood and field, are widely read.
It is an infamous thing in our American life, and fundamentally treacherous to our institutions, to apply to any man any test save that of his personal worth, or to draw between two sets of men any distinction save the distinction of conduct, the distinction that marks off those who do well and wisely from those who do ill and foolishly.
