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Their mental tendencies,\r\nhowever heterodox at times, are still very fine and spiritual upon the\r\nwhole; since the vacuity of their exchequers leads them to reject the\r\ncoarse materialism of Hobbs, and incline to the airy exaltations of the\r\nBerkelyan philosophy. Often groping in vain in their pockets, they can\r\nnot but give in to the Descartian vortices; while the abundance of\r\nleisure in their attics (physical and figurative), unite with the\r\nleisure in their stomachs, to fit them in an eminent degree for that\r\nundivided attention indispensable to the proper digesting of the\r\nsublimated Categories of Kant; especially as Kant (can't) is the one\r\ngreat palpable fact in their pervadingly impalpable lives. These are the\r\nglorious paupers, from whom I learn the profoundest mysteries of things;\r\nsince their very existence in the midst of such a terrible\r\nprecariousness of the commonest means of support, affords a problem on\r\nwhich many speculative nutcrackers have been vainly employed. Yet let me\r\nhere offer up three locks of my hair, to the memory of all such glorious\r\npaupers who have lived and died in this world. Surely, and truly I honor\r\nthem--noble men often at bottom--and for that very reason I make bold to\r\nbe gamesome about them; for where fundamental nobleness is, and\r\nfundamental honor is due, merriment is never accounted irreverent. The\r\nfools and pretenders of humanity, and the impostors and baboons among\r\nthe gods, these only are offended with raillery; since both those gods\r\nand men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves\r\nabout the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of\r\nfunny little boys in the street.\r\n\r\nWhen the substance is gone, men cling to the shadow. Places once set\r\napart to lofty purposes, still retain the name of that loftiness, even\r\nwhen converted to the meanest uses. It would seem, as if forced by\r\nimperative Fate to renounce the reality of the romantic and lofty, the\r\npeople of the present would fain make a compromise by retaining some\r\npurely imaginative remainder. The curious effects of this tendency is\r\noftenest evinced in those venerable countries of the old transatlantic\r\nworld; where still over the Thames one bridge yet retains the monastic\r\ntide of Blackfriars; though not a single Black Friar, but many a\r\npickpocket, has stood on that bank since a good ways beyond the days of\r\nQueen Bess; where still innumerable other historic anomalies sweetly and\r\nsadly remind the present man of the wonderful procession that preceded\r\nhim in his new generation. Nor--though the comparative recentness of our\r\nown foundation upon these Columbian shores, excludes any considerable\r\nparticipation in these attractive anomalies,--yet are we not altogether,\r\nin our more elderly towns, wholly without some touch of them, here and\r\nthere. It was thus with the ancient Church of the Apostles--better\r\nknown, even in its primitive day, under the abbreviative of The\r\nApostles--which, though now converted from its original purpose to one\r\nso widely contrasting, yet still retained its majestical name. The\r\nlawyer or artist tenanting its chambers, whether in the new building or\r\nthe old, when asked where he was to be found, invariably replied,--_At\r\nthe Apostles'_. But because now, at last, in the course of the\r\ninevitable transplantations of the more notable localities of the\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKVZ09030VMMG7Q94ZV50","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AMYHJXHFVS04QTQ7CTGCX","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AMYHJSJNPK65X3SH2GB6F","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:53.810Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:28.591Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}