a howling pandemonium, where no quarter is given, and where the merits
of the deserving rather than the lapses of the blameworthy are torn as
the most toothsome morsel in a furious feast. The Bible says that envy
is the rottenness of the bones, meaning that utter corruption which has
finally reached the framework of the structure. Society as now organized
is really making progress toward the extinction of this hideous blemish.
When, as in Æsop's fables,