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emerson-english-749	Ralph Waldo Emerson	English Traits			.epub	application/epub+zip	65549	3029	71	England has inoculated all nations with her civilization, intelligence, and tastes; and, to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself, by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, and, much more, the ideal standard, if only by means of the very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent minds. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations, -three languages, three or four nations; -the currents of thought are counter: contemplation and practical skill; active intellect and dead conservatism; world-wide enterprise, and devoted use and wont; aggressive freedom and hospitable law, with bitter class-legislation; a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man; a country of extremes, -dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers; -nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without salvos of cordial praise.	./cache/emerson-english-749.epub	./txt/emerson-english-749.txt