His interest impels him to cultivate a good understanding with those whose prompt, strenuous, and courageous assistance may at any moment be necessary to preserve his property and life.

It is a truth ever present to his mind that his own wellbeing depends on the ascendency of the class to which he belongs.

His very selfishness therefore is sublimed into public spirit: and this public spirit is stimulated to fierce enthusiasm by sympathy, by the desire of applause, and by the dread of infamy.

For the only opinion which he values is the opinion of his fellows; and in their opinion devotion to the common cause is the most sacred of duties.

The character, thus formed, has two aspects.