text:  We refer you to the aristocracies of other countries and we think we may safely say that we have more men of that class in this country who devote themselves to the high duties of their station regardless of its pleasures than in any other: men who recognize practically the responsibility of their rank and do not shirk from them; men who think they have something to do and something to repay for the accidents of birth and fortune--who in the senate in the field or in the less prominent but not less noble career of private life act as they feel with the poet: "At heros et decus et quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco