Cambridge, Mass., October 1, 1891.
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years ago, a great revival of national feeling; but this has been followed in some quarters, during the last few years, by a curious relapse into something of the old colonial and apologetic attitude; enhanced, no doubt, by the vexations and humiliations of the long struggle for international copyright.
This is the frame of mind which is deprecated in this volume, because it is the last source from which any strong or self-reliant literary work can proceed.
In the words of Thoreau, ‘I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.’
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