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Liberate convictions of an observant and well-informed man, who had,
moreover, singular opportunities of reflecting upon the people he had so
long travelled amongst. He says that "In energy, perseverance,
enterprise, sagacity, activity, and varied resources" the Americans
infinitely surpass the British; that he never met with "a stupid
American." That our "American children" surpass us not only in our good,
but "in our evil peculiarities." This I cannot understand; for, surely,
if we have _peculiarities_, which there is no denying, they must by all
the rules of logic be limited to ourselves. But the writer observes, in
a paragraph too long for quotation, that they exceed us in materialism
and in utilitarianism; that we, a nation of shopkeepers, as Napoleon
styled the English, were outdone in the worship of Mammon by them; that
we have rejected too much the higher branches of art and science, and
the cultivation of the aesthetic faculty--what an abominable word
aesthetic is! it always puts me in mind of asthmatic, for it is
broken-winded learning. "Is it not common," says he, "in modern England
to reject auth

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