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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, II (search)
ate of the Englishman, and is only charged with inexpressible inferiority in quality and size, let us know it; but if two hundred and fifty years of transplantation under a new sky and in new conditions have made any difference in the type, let us know that also. In truth, the difference is already so marked that Mr. Arnold himself concedes it at every step in his argument, and has indeed stated it in very much the same terms which an American would have employed. In a paper entitled From Easter to August, Nineteenth Century for September, 1887. he says frankly: Our countrymen [namely, the English], with a thousand good qualities, are really perhaps a good deal wanting in lucidity and flexibility; and again in the same essay: The whole American nation may be called intelligent; that is, quick. This would seem to be conceding the very point at issue between himself and the American writer whom he is criticising. The same difference of temperament, in the direction of a greater