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Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America. 3 3 Browse Search
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Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., II: a word about America. (search)
; but we are worth nothing, says Mr. Lowell of himself and his countrymen, we are worth nothing except so far as we have disinfected ourselves of Anglicism. Mr. Hussey Vivian, the member for Glamorganshire, goes to travel in America, and when he comes back, delighted with the country and the people, he publishes his opinion that jm to be a highly aristocratic people. I suppose this may serve as a specimen of the Anglicism which is so exasperating to Mr. Lowell. I do not share it. Mr. Hussey Vivian has a keen eye for the geological and mining facts of America, but as to the political facts of that country, the real tendencies of its life, and its futurense for beauty, or the sense for social life and manners, in the nation at large, it does nothing or next to nothing. So we must not hastily pronounce, with Mr. Hussey Vivian, that American civilization suffers by its absence. Indeed they are themselves developing, it is said, a class of very rich people quite sufficiently materi