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admiration and receive such scorn in return, this demands of us too much humility or too complete an indifference.”
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The so-called “jingo” feeling in America — which seems, to the present writer, a peril and an anachronism — will never be fully comprehended except by studying the kindred condition of the French mind, as seen in these words of the most accomplished of French critics.
The moral is that nations, like individuals, reap what they have sown; and that if we too do injustice, we may awake too late to the discovery that we must pay the price.
1 Les Contemporains, IV., 299.
New York, Harper and Brothers, 1897.
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