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This seemed to his Forsyte heart more painful, more pitiful than death itself. No shelter, no protection, no love at the last! And all the deeply rooted clanship in him, the family feeling and essential clinging to his own flesh and blood which had been so strong in old Jolyon was so strong in all the Forsytes felt outraged, cut, and torn by his boy's lonely passing.
It may be observed, too, that a middle class as rarely unites itself with the idols of the populace as with the chiefs of a seignorie. The brute attachment of the peasants and the mobs to the gorgeous and lavish earl seemed to the burgesses the sign of a barbaric clanship, opposed to that advance in civilization towards which they half unconsciously struggled.
If we imagine a confederacy of Highland chiefs even a century or two ago give them a nominal king consider their pride and their jealousy see them impatient of authority in one above them, yet despotic to those below quarrelling with each other united only by clanship, never by citizenship; and place them in a half-conquered country, surrounded by hostile neighbours and mutinous slaves we may then form, perhaps, some idea of the state of Sparta previous to the legislation of Lycurgus.
Until the time when my sister left me by marriage I was settled at N , on the Connecticut. Soon after this event, died old Dr. P of Foxden, and I received a call to his vacant parish. I knew that the sort of society to be found in that place would minister to my most urgent need. I craved some intellectual clanship which should never seek to rise to an equal spiritual companionship.
The spirit of clanship was at that time, so strong to which must be added the wish to secure the adherence of stout, able-bodied, and, as the Scotch phrase then went, pretty men that the representative of the noble family of Perth condescended to act openly as patron of the MacGregors, and appeared as such upon their trial.
The poor reader or spectator has no remedy; the compositions are secundum artem, and if he does not like them, he is no judge that's all. February 14 I had a call from Glengarry yesterday, as kind and friendly as usual. This gentleman is a kind of Quixote in our age, having retained, in their full extent, the whole feelings of clanship and chieftainship, elsewhere so long abandoned.
I would do something that you are not obliged to do, just as I have seen a cowardly dog willing to fight with any one save that which his master would have desired him to yoke with. So I went over the review of the Culloden Papers, and went a great way to convert it into the Essay on Clanship, etc., which I intend for the Prose Works.
Clanship made Gillian's indignation almost bring down the office, and her eloquence was scarcely needed, since Kalliope had seen the value to some of her 'hands' from the class, the library, the recreation- room, and the influence of the ladies, above all, the showing them that it was possible to have variety and amusement free from vulgar and perilous dissipation; but still she hesitated.
'For you, poor ignorant man, continued the Judge, 'who, following the ideas in which you have been educated, have this day given us a striking example how the loyalty due to the king and state alone is, from your unhappy ideas of clanship, transferred to some ambitious individual who ends by making you the tool of his crimes for you, I say, I feel so much compassion that, if you can make up your mind to petition for grace, I will endeavour to procure it for you.
Generally speaking, men belonging to the public service are more gregarious, and stick to one another in a greater degree, imitating the clanship of Scotchmen and Jews, than those occupied in any other walk in life. Professionals move, as a rule, in petty cliques; city people find their interests clash too much for them to associate in such harmony as do those engaged in Government offices.
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