It seemed to me iniquitous, for we believe that inequality and
iniquity are the same in the last analysis."
At this I found myself able to say: "Yes, there is something terrible,
something shocking, in the frank brutality with which Englishmen affirm
the essential inequality of men. The affirmation of the essential equality
of men was the first point of departure with us when we separated from
them."
"I know," said the Altrurian. "How grandly it is expressed in your
glorious Declaration!"
"Ah, you have read our Declaration of Independence, then?"
"Every Altrurian has read that," answered my friend.
"Well," I went on smoothly, and I hoped to render what I was going to say
the means of enlightening him without offence concerning the little
mistake he had just made with the waitress, "of course we don't take that
in its closest literality."
"I don't understand you," he said.
"Why, you know it was rather the political than the social traditions of
England that we broke with, in the Revolution."
"How is that?" he returned. "Didn't you break with monarchy and nobility,
and ranks and classes?"
"Yes, we broke with all those things.
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