For instance, assuming to myself the power of marshalling the aforesaid procession, I direct a trumpeter to send forth11 a blast loud enough to be heard from hence to China; and a herald13, with world-pervading14 voice, to make proclamation for a certain class of mortals to take their places. What shall be their principle of union? After all, an external one, in comparison with many that might be found, yet far more real than those which the world has selected for a similar purpose. Let all who are afflicted15 with like physical diseases form themselves into ranks.
Our first attempt at classification is not very successful. It may gratify the pride of aristocracy to reflect that disease, more than any other circumstance of human life, pays due observance to the distinctions which rank and wealth, and poverty and lowliness, have established among mankind. Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. Of this kind is the gout, which serves as a bond of brotherhood to the purple-visaged gentry17, who obey the herald’s voice, and painfully hobble from all civilized18 regions of the globe to take their post in the grand procession. In mercy to their toes, let us hope that the march may not be long. The Dyspeptics, too, are people of good standing in the world. For them the earliest salmon19 is caught in our eastern rivers, and the shy woodcock stains the dry leaves with his blood in his remotest haunts, and the turtle comes from the far Pacific Islands to be gobbled up in soup. They can afford to flavor all their dishes with indolence, which, in spite of the general opinion, is a sauce more exquisitely20 piquant21 than appetite won by exercise. Apoplexy is another highly respectable disease. We will rank together all who have the symptom of dizziness in the brain, and as fast as any drop by the way supply their places with new members of the board of aldermen.
On the other hand, here come whole tribes of people whose physical lives are but a deteriorated22 variety of life, and themselves a meaner species of mankind; so sad an effect has been wrought23 by the tainted24 breath of cities, scanty25 and unwholesome food, destructive modes of labor26, and the lack of those moral supports that might partially27 have counteracted28 such bad influences. Behold29 here a train of house painters, all afflicted with a peculiar30 sort of colic. Next in place we will marshal those workmen in cutlery, who have breathed a fatal disorder31 into their lungs with the impalpable dust of steel. Tailors and shoemakers, being sedentary men, will chiefly congregate32 into one part of the procession and march under similar banners of disease; but among them we may observe here and there a sickly student, who has left his health between the leaves of classic volumes; and clerks, likewise, who have caught their deaths on high official stools; and men of genius too, who have written sheet after sheet with pens dipped in their heart’s blood. These are a wretched quaking, short-breathed set. But what is this cloud of pale-cheeked, slender girls, who disturb the ear with the multiplicity of their short, dry coughs? They are seamstresses, who have plied33 the daily and nightly needle in the service of master tailors and close-fisted contractors35, until now it is almost time for each to hem3 the borders of her own shroud36. Consumption points their place in the procession. With their sad sisterhood are intermingled many youthful maidens37 who have sickened in aristocratic mansions40, and for whose aid science has unavailingly searched its volumes, and whom breathless love has watched. In our ranks the rich maiden38 and the poor seamstress may walk arm in arm. We might find innumerable other instances, where the bond of mutual42 disease — not to speak of nation-sweeping pestilence43 — embraces high and low, and makes the king a brother of the clown. But it is not hard to own that disease is the natural aristocrat39. Let him keep his state, and have his established orders of rank, and wear his royal mantle44 of the color of a fever flush and let the noble and wealthy boast their own physical infirmities, and display their symptoms as the badges of high station. All things considered, these are as proper subjects of human pride as any relations of human rank that men can fix upon.
Sound again, thou deep-breathed trumpeter! and herald, with thy voice of might, shout forth another summons that shall reach the old baronial castles of Europe, and the rudest cabin of our western wilderness45! What class is next to take its place in the procession of mortal life? Let it be those whom the gifts of intellect have united in a noble brotherhood.
Ay, this is a reality, before which the conventional distinctions of society melt away like a vapor46 when we would grasp it with the hand. Were Byron now alive, and Burns, the first would come from his ancestral abbey, flinging aside, although unwillingly47, the inherited honors of a thousand years, to take the arm of the mighty48 peasant who grew immortal49 while he stooped behind his plough. These are gone; but the hall, the farmer’s fireside, the hut, perhaps the palace, the counting-room, the workshop, the village, the city, life’s high places and low ones, may all produce their poets, whom a common temperament50 pervades51 like an electric sympathy. Peer or ploughman, we will muster52 them pair by pair and shoulder to shoulder. Even society, in its most artificial state, consents to this arrangement. These factory girls from Lowell shall mate themselves with the pride of drawing-rooms and literary circles, the bluebells53 in fashion’s nosegay, the Sapphos, and Montagues, and Nortons of the age. Other modes of intellect bring together as strange companies. Silk-gowned professor of languages, give your arm to this sturdy blacksmith, and deem yourself honored by the conjunction, though you behold him grimy from the anvil54. All varieties of human speech are like his mother tongue to this rare man. Indiscriminately let those take their places, of whatever rank they come, who possess the kingly gifts to lead armies or to sway a people — Nature’s generals, her lawgivers, her kings, and with them also the deep philosophers who think the thought in one generation that is to revolutionize society in the next. With the hereditary56 legislator in whom eloquence57 is a far-descended attainment58 — a rich echo repeated by powerful voices from Cicero downward — we will match some wondrous59 backwoodsman, who has caught a wild power of language from the breeze among his native forest boughs60. But we may safely leave these brethren and sisterhood to settle their own congenialities. Our ordinary distinctions become so trifling61, so impalpable, so ridiculously visionary, in comparison with a classification founded on truth, that all talk about the matter is immediately a common place.
Yet the longer I reflect the less am I satisfied with the idea of forming a separate class of mankind on the basis of high intellectual power. At best it is but a higher development of innate gifts common to all. Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack62 of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly, though unutterably, conscious. Therefore, though we suffer the brotherhood of intellect to march onward together, it may be doubted whether their peculiar relation will not begin to vanish as soon as the procession shall have passed beyond the circle of this present world. But we do not classify for eternity63.
And next, let the trumpet12 pour forth a funereal wail64, and the herald’s voice give breath in one vast cry to all the groans65 and grievous utterances66 that are audible throughout the earth. We appeal now to the sacred bond of sorrow, and summon the great multitude who labor under similar afflictions to take their places in the march.
How many a heart that would have been insensible to any other call has responded to the doleful accents of that voice! It has gone far and wide, and high and low, and left scarcely a mortal roof unvisited. Indeed, the principle is only too universal for our purpose, and, unless we limit it, will quite break up our classification of mankind, and convert the whole procession into a funeral train. We will therefore be at some pains to discriminate55. Here comes a lonely rich man: he has built a noble fabric67 for his dwelling-house, with a front of stately architecture and marble floors and doors of precious woods; the whole structure is as beautiful as a dream and as substantial as the native rock. But the visionary shapes of a long posterity68, for whose home this mansion41 was intended, have faded into nothingness since the death of the founder69’s only son. The rich man gives a glance at his sable70 garb71 in one of the splendid mirrors of his drawing-room, and descending72 a flight of lofty steps instinctively73 offers his arm to yonder poverty stricken widow in the rusty74 black bonnet75, and with a check apron76 over her patched gown. The sailor boy, who was her sole earthly stay, was washed overboard in a late tempest. This couple from the palace and the almshouse are but the types of thousands more who represent the dark tragedy of life and seldom quarrel for the upper parts. Grief is such a leveller, with its own dignity and its own humility77, that the noble and the peasant, the beggar and the monarch78, will waive79 their pretensions80 to external rank without the officiousness of interference on our part. If pride — the influence of the world’s false distinctions — remain in the heart, then sorrow lacks the earnestness which makes it holy and reverend. It loses its reality and becomes a miserable81 shadow. On this ground we have an opportunity to assign over multitudes who would willingly claim places here to other parts of the procession. If the mourner have anything dearer than his grief he must seek his true position elsewhere. There are so many unsubstantial sorrows which the necessity of our mortal state begets82 on idleness, that an observer, casting aside sentiment, is sometimes led to question whether there be any real woe83, except absolute physical suffering and the loss of closest friends. A crowd who exhibit what they deem to be broken hearts — and among them many lovelorn maids and bachelors, and men of disappointed ambition in arts or politics, and the poor who were once rich, or who have sought to be rich in vain — the great majority of these may ask admittance into some other fraternity. There is no room here. Perhaps we may institute a separate class where such unfortunates will naturally fall into the procession. Meanwhile let them stand aside and patiently await their time.
If our trumpeter can borrow a note from the doomsday trumpet blast, let him sound it now. The dread84 alarum should make the earth quake to its centre, for the herald is about to address mankind with a summons to which even the purest mortal may be sensible of some faint responding echo in his breast. In many bosoms85 it will awaken86 a still small voice more terrible than its own reverberating88 uproar89.
The hideous90 appeal has swept around the globe. Come, all ye guilty ones, and rank yourselves in accordance with the brotherhood of crime. This, indeed, is an awful summons. I almost tremble to look at the strange partnerships92 that begin to be formed, reluctantly, but by the in vincible necessity of like to like in this part of the procession. A forger93 from the state prison seizes the arm of a distinguished94 financier. How indignantly does the latter plead his fair reputation upon ‘Change, and insist that his operations, by their magnificence of scope, were removed into quite another sphere of morality than those of his pitiful companion! But let him cut the connection if he can. Here comes a murderer with his clanking chains, and pairs himself — horrible to tell — with as pure and upright a man, in all observable respects, as ever partook of the consecrated95 bread and wine. He is one of those, perchance the most hopeless of all sinners, who practise such an exemplary system of outward duties, that even a deadly crime may be hidden from their own sight and remembrance, under this unreal frostwork. Yet he now finds his place. Why do that pair of flaunting96 girls, with the pert, affected97 laugh and the sly leer at the by-standers, intrude98 themselves into the same rank with yonder decorous matron, and that somewhat prudish99 maiden? Surely these poor creatures, born to vice34 as their sole and natural inheritance, can be no fit associates for women who have been guarded round about by all the proprieties100 of domestic life, and who could not err87 unless they first created the opportunity. Oh no; it must be merely the impertinence of those unblushing hussies; and we can only wonder how such respectable ladies should have responded to a summons that was not meant for them.
We shall make short work of this miserable class, each member of which is entitled to grasp any other member’s hand, by that vile101 degradation102 wherein guilty error has buried all alike. The foul103 fiend to whom it properly belongs must relieve us of our loathsome104 task. Let the bond servants of sin pass on. But neither man nor woman, in whom good predominates, will smile or sneer105, nor bid the Rogues’ March be played, in derision of their array. Feeling within their breasts a shuddering106 sympathy, which at least gives token of the sin that might have been, they will thank God for any place in the grand procession of human existence, save among those most wretched ones. Many, however, will be astonished at the fatal impulse that drags them thitherward. Nothing is more remarkable107 than the various deceptions108 by which guilt91 conceals109 itself from the perpetrator’s conscience, and oftenest, perhaps, by the splendor110 of its garments. Statesmen, rulers, generals, and all men who act over an extensive sphere, are most liable to be deluded111 in this way; they commit wrong, devastation112, and murder, on so grand a scale, that it impresses them as speculative rather than actual; but in our procession we find them linked in detestable conjunction with the meanest criminals whose deeds have the vulgarity of petty details. Here the effect of circumstance and accident is done away, and a man finds his rank according to the spirit of his crime, in whatever shape it may have been developed.
We have called the Evil; now let us call the Good. The trumpet’s brazen113 throat should pour heavenly music over the earth, and the herald’s voice go forth with the sweetness of an angel’s accents, as if to summon each upright man to his reward. But how is this? Does none answer to the call? Not one: for the just, the pure, the true, and an who might most worthily114 obey it, shrink sadly back, as most conscious of error and imperfection. Then let the summons be to those whose pervading principle is Love. This classification will embrace all the truly good, and none in whose souls there exists not something that may expand itself into a heaven, both of well-doing and felicity.
The first that presents himself is a man of wealth, who has bequeathed the bulk of his property to a hospital; his ghost, methinks, would have a better right here than his living body. But here they come, the genuine benefactors115 of their race. Some have wandered about the earth with pictures of bliss116 in their imagination, and with hearts that shrank sensitively from the idea of pain and woe, yet have studied all varieties of misery117 that human nature can endure. The prison, the insane asylum118, the squalid chamber119 of the almshouse, the manufactory where the demon120 of machinery121 annihilates122 the human soul, and the cotton field where God’s image becomes a beast of burden; to these and every other scene where man wrongs or neglects his brother, the apostles of humanity have penetrated123. This missionary124, black with India’s burning sunshine, shall give his arm to a pale-faced brother who has made himself familiar with the infected alleys125 and loathsome haunts of vice in one of our own cities. The generous founder of a college shall be the partner of a maiden lady of narrow substance, one of whose good deeds it has been to gather a little school of orphan126 children. If the mighty merchant whose benefactions are reckoned by thousands of dollars deem himself worthy127, let him join the procession with her whose love has proved itself by watchings at the sick-bed, and all those lowly offices which bring her into actual contact with disease and wretchedness. And with those whose impulses have guided them to benevolent129 actions, we will rank others to whom Providence has assigned a different tendency and different powers. Men who have spent their lives in generous and holy contemplation for the human race; those who, by a certain heavenliness of spirit, have purified the atmosphere around them, and thus supplied a medium in which good and high things may be projected and performed — give to these a lofty place among the benefactors of mankind, although no deed, such as the world calls deeds, may be recorded of them. There are some individuals of whom we cannot conceive it proper that they should apply their hands to any earthly instrument, or work out any definite act; and others, perhaps not less high, to whom it is an essential attribute to labor in body as well as spirit for the welfare of their brethren. Thus, if we find a spiritual sage16 whose unseen, inestimable influence has exalted130 the moral standard of mankind, we will choose for his companion some poor laborer131 who has wrought for love in the potato field of a neighbor poorer than himself.
We have summoned this various multitude — and, to the credit of our nature, it is a large one — on the principle of Love. It is singular, nevertheless, to remark the shyness that exists among many members of the present class, all of whom we might expect to recognize one another by the freemasonry of mutual goodness, and to embrace like brethren, giving God thanks for such various specimens132 of human excellence133. But it is far otherwise. Each sect134 surrounds its own righteousness with a hedge of thorns. It is difficult for the good Christian135 to acknowledge the good Pagan; almost impossible for the good Orthodox to grasp the hand of the good Unitarian, leaving to their Creator to settle the matters in dispute, and giving their mutual efforts strongly and trustingly to whatever right thing is too evident to be mistaken. Then again, though the heart be large, yet the mind is often of such moderate dimensions as to be exclusively filled up with one idea. When a good man has long devoted136 himself to a particular kind of beneficence — to one species of reform — he is apt to become narrowed into the limits of the path wherein he treads, and to fancy that there is no other good to be done on earth but that self-same good to which he has put his hand, and in the very mode that best suits his own conceptions. All else is worthless. His scheme must be wrought out by the united strength of the whole world’s stock of love, or the world is no longer worthy of a position in the universe. Moreover, powerful Truth, being the rich grape juice expressed from the vineyard of the ages, has an intoxicating137 quality, when imbibed138 by any save a powerful intellect, and often, as it were, impels139 the quaffer140 to quarrel in his cups. For such reasons, strange to say, it is harder to contrive141 a friendly arrangement of these brethren of love and righteousness, in the procession of life, than to unite even the wicked, who, indeed, are chained together by their crimes. The fact is too preposterous for tears, too lugubrious142 for laughter.
But, let good men push and elbow one another as they may during their earthly march, all will be peace among them when the honorable array or their procession shall tread on heavenly ground. There they will doubtless find that they have been working each for the other’s cause, and that every well-delivered stroke, which, with an honest purpose any mortal struck, even for a narrow object, was indeed stricken for the universal cause of good. Their own view may be bounded by country, creed143, profession, the diversities of individual character — but above them all is the breadth of Providence. How many who have deemed themselves antagonists144 will smile hereafter, when they look back upon the world’s wide harvest field, and perceive that, in unconscious brotherhood, they were helping145 to bind146 the selfsame sheaf!
But, come! The sun is hastening westward147, while the march of human life, that never paused before, is delayed by our attempt to rearrange its order. It is desirable to find some comprehensive principle, that shall render our task easier by bringing thousands into the ranks where hitherto we have brought one. Therefore let the trumpet, if possible, split its brazen throat with a louder note than ever, and the herald summon all mortals, who, from whatever cause, have lost, or never found, their proper places in the wold.
Obedient to this call, a great multitude come together, most of them with a listless gait, betokening148 weariness of soul, yet with a gleam of satisfaction in their faces, at a prospect149 of at length reaching those positions which, hitherto, they have vainly sought. But here will be another disappointment; for we can attempt no more than merely to associate in one fraternity all who are afflicted with the same vague trouble. Some great mistake in life is the chief condition of admittance into this class. Here are members of the learned professions, whom Providence endowed with special gifts for the plough, the forge, and the wheelbarrow, or for the routine of unintellectual business. We will assign to them, as partners in the march, those lowly laborers150 and handicraftsmen, who have pined, as with a dying thirst, after the unattainable fountains of knowledge. The latter have lost less than their companions; yet more, because they deem it infinite. Perchance the two species of unfortunates may comfort one another. Here are Quakers with the instinct of battle in them; and men of war who should have worn the broad brim. Authors shall be ranked here whom some freak of Nature, making game of her poor children, had imbued151 with the confidence of genius and strong desire of fame, but has favored with no corresponding power; and others, whose lofty gifts were unaccompanied with the faculty152 of expression, or any of that earthly machinery by which ethereal endowments must be manifested to mankind. All these, therefore, are melancholy153 laughing-stocks. Next, here are honest and well intentioned persons, who by a want of tact128 — by inaccurate154 perceptions — by a distorting imagination — have been kept continually at cross purposes with the world and bewildered upon the path of life. Let us see if they can confine themselves within the line of our procession. In this class, likewise, we must assign places to those who have encountered that worst of ill success, a higher fortune than their abilities could vindicate155; writers, actors, painters, the pets of a day, but whose laurels156 wither157 unrenewed amid their hoary158 hair; politicians, whom some malicious159 contingency160 of affairs has thrust into conspicuous161 station, where, while the world stands gazing at them, the dreary162 consciousness of imbecility makes them curse their birth hour. To such men, we give for a companion him whose rare talents, which perhaps require a Revolution for their exercise, are buried in the tomb of sluggish163 circumstances.
Not far from these, we must find room for one whose success has been of the wrong kind; the man who should have lingered in the cloisters164 of a university, digging new treasures out of the Herculaneum of antique lore165, diffusing166 depth and accuracy of literature throughout his country, and thus making for himself a great and quiet fame. But the outward tendencies around him have proved too powerful for his inward nature, and have drawn167 him into the arena168 of political tumult169, there to contend at disadvantage, whether front to front, or side by side, with the brawny170 giants of actual life. He becomes, it may be, a name for brawling171 parties to bandy to and fro, a legislator of the union; a governor of his native state; an ambassador to the courts of kings or queens; and the world may deem him a man of happy stars. But not so the wise; and not so himself, when he looks through his experience, and sighs to miss that fitness, the one invaluable172 touch which makes all things true and real. So much achieved, yet how abortive173 is his life! Whom shall we choose for his companion? Some weak framed blacksmith, perhaps, whose delicacy174 of muscle might have suited a tailor’s shopboard better than the anvil.
Shall we bid the trumpet sound again? It is hardly worth the while. There remain a few idle men of fortune, tavern175 and grog-shop loungers, lazzaroni, old bachelors, decaying maidens, and people of crooked176 intellect or temper, all of whom may find their like, or some tolerable approach to it, in the plentiful177 diversity of our latter class. There too, as his ultimate destiny, must we rank the dreamer, who, all his life long, has cherished the idea that he was peculiarly apt for something, but never could determine what it was; and there the most unfortunate of men, whose purpose it has been to enjoy life’s pleasures, but to avoid a manful struggle with its toil178 and sorrow. The remainder, if any, may connect themselves with whatever rank of the procession they shall find best adapted to their tastes and consciences. The worst possible fate would be to remain behind, shivering in the solitude179 of time, while all the world is on the move towards eternity. Our attempt to classify society is now complete. The result may be anything but perfect; yet better — to give it the very lowest praise — than the antique rule of the herald’s office, or the modern one of the tax-gatherer, whereby the accidents and superficial attributes with which the real nature of individuals has least to do, are acted upon as the deepest characteristics of mankind. Our task is done! Now let the grand procession move!
Yet pause a while! We had forgotten the Chief Marshal.
Hark! That world-wide swell180 of solemn music, with the clang of a mighty bell breaking forth through its regulated uproar, announces his approach. He comes; a severe, sedate181, immovable, dark rider, waving his truncheon of universal sway, as he passes along the lengthened182 line, on the pale horse of the Revelation. It is Death! Who else could assume the guidance of a procession that comprehends all humanity? And if some, among these many millions, should deem themselves classed amiss, yet let them take to their hearts the comfortable truth that Death levels us all into one great brotherhood, and that another state of being will surely rectify183 the wrong of this. Then breathe thy wail upon the earth’s wailing184 wind, thou band of melancholy music, made up of every sigh that the human heart, unsatisfied, has uttered! There is yet triumph in thy tones. And now we move! Beggars in their rags, and Kings trailing the regal purple in the dust; the Warrior’s gleaming helmet; the Priest in his sable robe; the hoary Grandsire, who has run life’s circle and come back to childhood; the ruddy School-boy with his golden curls, frisking along the march; the Artisan’s stuff jacket; the Noble’s star-decorated coat; — the whole presenting a motley spectacle, yet with a dusky grandeur185 brooding over it. Onward, onward, into that dimness where the lights of Time which have blazed along the procession, are flickering186 in their sockets187! And whither! We know not; and Death, hitherto our leader, deserts us by the wayside, as the tramp of our innumerable footsteps echoes beyond his sphere. He knows not, more than we, our destined188 goal. But God, who made us, knows, and will not leave us on our toilsome and doubtful march, either to wander in infinite uncertainty189, or perish by the way!
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