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Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., II : a word about America . (search)
II: a word about America.
Mr. Lowell, in an interesting but rather tart essay, On a certain Co rd to the object of their ill-will, are apt, Mr. Lowell declares, to make him impatient.
Let them g r of the social systems of other countries.
Mr. Lowell complains that we English make our narrow An want; and if American democracy gives this, Mr. Lowell may rely upon it that no narrow Anglicism sh arts have no chance in poor countries, says Mr. Lowell. From sturdy father to sturdy son, we have b s it not the highest act of a republic, asks Mr. Lowell, to make men of flesh and blood, and not the the collective, not the individual humanity, Mr. Lowell goes on, that is to have a chance of nobler pped over, as he wittily says, to Europe.
Mr. Lowell himself describes his own nation as the most nt in the United States than they are here.
Mr. Lowell himself writes, in that very same essay in w l himself in such style as the following: This Lowell is a fraud, and a disgrace to the American nat
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