The "China Mail" of Hongkong is brightening the summer with a correspondence about snobs and snobbery, from which we learn that "snobbery is certainly much more rampant in Hongkong than any where else in the Far East." Is it? We fancy that other towns may put in a claim not to be disregarded. Another correspondent tells us that "one man is as good as another save and except when he thinks himself better." Was it not Rousseau who said that "man is born free and is for ever after in chains?" The glaring untruthfulness of which is not worse than to say that one man jis as good as another. He is not, in brains, health or physical abilities, nev-r has been, except perhaps in the days of Adam, of all men born his sons the gondiiest, The fairest of her daughters, Eve.
—and, it is extremely probable, never will be. And surely this natural inequality, when we put away the grosser and laughable
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