In many student circles I see a want of principle, a low cringing to success, a cowardly worship of animal strength, that is without its parallel in our history.

Instinctively, this corrupt youth sides, in every question, with the strong against the weak, with the pursuer against the pursued, and that at the age when my generation exerted itself passionately, without a question as to right or wrong, for everyone oppressed against every oppressor.

Of course we were simpletons, we of '48, and the golden youth of to-day scoffs superciliously at our naive ideals.

In the present order of things everything has become a curse--even the parliamentary system.
For that gives the people no means of making its will known, and has simply become a vehicle for general corruption at the elections.

Our officials, on whose independence of spirit we used to pride ourselves so much, have sunk into mere electioneering agents, and unless they pursue, oppress, and grind the opponents of the government, have no chance of promotion.