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We are against privilege in any form: privilege to the

capitalist who exploits the poor man, and privilege to

the shiftless or vicious poor man who would rob his

thrifty brother of what he has earned. Certain

exceedingly valuable forms of service are rendered

wholly without capital. On the other hand, there are

exceedingly valuable forms of service which can be

rendered only by means of great accumulations of

capital, and not to recognize this fact would be to

deprive our whole people of one of the great agencies

for their betterment. The test of a man's worth to the

community is the service he renders to it, and we

cannot afford to make this test by material

considerations alone. (Outlook, March 20, 1909.) Mem.

Ed. XVIII, 562; Nat. Ed. XIX, 105.

whether it be due to calculated self-indulgence, love of

ease and comfort, or absorption in worldly success on

the part of the man, or, on the part of the woman, to that

kind of shrieking "feminism," the antithesis of all worth

calling womanly, which gives fine names to shirking of

duty, and to the fear of danger and discomfort, and

actually exalts as praiseworthy the abandonment or

subordination by women of the most sacred and vitally

important of the functions of womanhood. It is not

enough that a race shall be composed of good fighters,

good workers, and good breeders; but, unless the

qualities thus indicated are present in the race

foundation, then the superstructure, however seemingly

imposing, will topple. (1916.) Mem. Ed. IV, 233; Nat.

Ed. III, 382.

SEX INSTINCT. See also BIRTH CONTROL;

MARRIAGE.

SHAFTER, GENERAL W. R. See SPANISH-

AMERICAN WAR.

SHEEP. No man can associate with sheep and retain

his self-respect. Intellectually, a sheep is about on the

lowest level of the brute creation; why the early

Christians admired it, whether young or old, is to a

good cattleman always a profound mystery. (1885.)

Mem. Ed. I, 112; Nat. Ed. I, 93.

SHEEP—DOMESTICATION OF. No animal seems

to have been more changed by domestication than the

sheep. The timid, helpless, fleecy idiot of the folds, the

most foolish of all tame animals, has hardly a trait in

common with his self-reliant wild relative who

combines the horns of a sheep with the hide of a deer,

whose home is in the rocks and the mountains, and who

is so abundantly able to take care of himself. Wild

sheep are as good mountaineers as wild goats or as

mountain-antelopes, and are to the full as wary and

intelligent. (1888.) Mem. Ed. IV, 549-550; Nat. Ed. I,

SERVILITY. One form of servility consists in a

slavish attitude—of the kind incompatible with self-

respecting manliness—toward any person who is

powerful by reason of his office or position. Servility

may be shown by a public servant toward the

profiteering head of a large corporation, or toward the

anti-American head of a big labor organization. (1918.)

Mem. Ed. XXI, 316; Nat. Ed. XIX, 289.

SEVIER, JOHN. For many years Sevier was the best

Indian fighter on the border. He was far more

successful than Clark, for instance, inflicting greater

loss on his foes and suffering much less himself, though

he never had anything like Clark's number of soldiers.

His mere name was a word of dread to the Cherokees,

the Chickamaugas, and the upper Creeks. His success

was due to several causes. He wielded great influence

over his own followers, whose love for and trust in

"Chucky Jack" were absolutely unbounded; for he

possessed in the highest degree the virtues most prized

on the frontier. He was open-hearted and hospitable,

with winning ways toward all, and combined a cool

head with a dauntless heart; he loved a battle for its

own sake, and was never so much at his ease as when

under fire. (1889.) Mem. Ed. XI, 144; Nat. Ed. VIII,

SHEEP, BIGHORN—HUNTING THE. The big-

horn ranks highest among all the species of game that

are killed by still-hunting, and its chase constitutes the

noblest form of sport with the rifle, always excepting,

of course, those kinds of hunting where the quarry is

itself dangerous to attack. (1885.) Mem. Ed. I, 207; Nat.

Ed. I, 173.

____________. Still-hunting the big-horn is always a

toilsome and laborious task, and the

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