Brann the iconoclast Author:William Cowper Brann Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: age will pass, as passed the age of brutish ignorance, as passed the age of tyranny. I believe the day will come—oh blessed dawn!"—when the angel of Intellect wi... more »ll banish the devil of Demagogy; when Americans will be in spirit and in truth a band of brothers, the wrongs of one thte concern of all ; when labor will no longer fear the Cormorant nor capital the Commune—when all men will be equal before the law wherever falls the shadow of our flag. MARLBOROUGH-VANDERBILT MARRIAGE. The approaching marriage of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough is agitating the social world from centre to circumference. New York's Four Hundred and the fashionables of London are standing on their hind legs and wildly waving their ears. The alliance is pronounced not only "the social event of the season," .but of all seasons, so far as Columbia is concerned. The capture by Miss Gould of a French count was not a circumstance to it. The Frenchman was only a count'by courtesy, while the "Jook" is still doing business at Sara Jennings' old stand. The press gave us only a few columns daily anent the Gould-Castellane barter and sale, but it shoots the Vanderbilt-Marlborough affair into us by the page. The press can always be depended upon to rise equal to the occasion, and this is too evidently the supreme crisis of the universe. Millions of columns have been written anent the matter, and the deluge of intellectual bilge-water has just begun. If Heaven and Earth should again embrace to beget a second Saturnus the pencil-pushers could not be more profoundly impressed. And who the devil are the Duke of "Marlborough and Miss Vanderbilt, that the world should hold its breath while they make elaborate preparations to contribute, each to the misery of the other—to share the same bed and boa...« less