The nine hundred and eighty thousand come and vote themselves to be ladies and gentlemen too, and that elects the whole nation.

Since the whole million vote themselves ladies and gentlemen, there is no question about that election.

It does make absolute equality, and there is no fiction about it; while over yonder the inequality, (by decree of the infinitely feeble, and consent of the infinitely strong,) is also absolute--as real and absolute as our equality." Tracy had shrunk promptly into his English shell when this speech began, notwithstanding he had now been in severe training several weeks for contact and intercourse with the common herd on the common herd's terms; but he lost no time in pulling himself out again, and so by the time the speech was finished his valves were open once more, and he was forcing himself to accept without resentment the common herd's frank fashion of dropping sociably into other people's conversations unembarrassed and uninvited.

The process was not very difficult this time, for the man's smile and voice and manner were persuasive and winning.

Tracy would even have liked him on the spot, but for the fact--fact which he was not really aware of--that the equality of men was not yet a reality to him, it was only a theory; the mind perceived, but the man failed to feel it.
It was Hattie's ghost over again, merely turned around.