The Bengal Magazine: Vol. X

The amount of General Intelligence, intelligence among the lower as well as the higher orders of society, noticeable in America is a marvel, especially to a traveller from a dark Asiatic country. But why talk of orders and grades in a country where "one man is as good as another and a great deal better" ? In America there are no boys and girls, and no lower orders of society. No boys and girls what can my meaning boy why it is simply this children, as soon as they can articulate words and talk decently enough, are treated in America as if they were ladies and gentlemen; not girls and boys.