It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.