Not only are the paths of preeminence untrodden; the purlieus of brutish ignorance are likewise unfrequented.

On neither side of the great medial line is the departure of individuals far or frequent.

All men there are more alike;--so much alike, indeed, that the place would seem to offer a sort of forlorn hope for disappointed socialists.

Although religious missionaries have not met with any marked success among the natives, this less deserving class of enthusiastic disseminators of an all-possessing belief might do well to attempt it.

They would find there a very virgin field of a most promisingly dead level.