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Few characteristic* are worthy of higher
estimation than true politeness, dignified and
genteel deportment. And that none should
mistake my intention, let me remark that by
the term politeness 1 mean something far
higher or nobler than maj seem to attach to
the idea. Thfrre i* much that passes with the
itrnornnt and dishont-^t aw politeness which
deserves not the name, and should find no
advocate among sober and intelligent peo
ple. To bow with grace and smile with
complaisance, to assume a manner of suavi
ty and kiminuss which has no benevolenco,
no heart in it, to put on tho manner of cour
teous bearing merely to serve a purpose, and
to lay it aside whenever tho oooasion which
oalled it furth has pusscd by, is the mere
counterfeit of the manners of well-bred and
flirts may be excused for tbe practice of this
spunous style of politeness, but that which
resp^cttibio and intelligent people should be
taught in all their sohools, is as unlike this
as gn!d is unlike its cheapest counterfeit, it
hus it* origin in the heart. It is the devel
opement aud exercise of outward manifesta-
Bat the tendency of thinjr* at the present
day is n in the direction of thin temper and
tone of bearing, but decidedly the reverse.
And 111 thin respect, as in regard to health,
tbero manifestly has been rapid progress in
tbe wrong direction iluring tbe last twenty
years.
