GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF BRAZIL. 517 
her future progress and prosperity, and sincere personal 
gratitude toward her. I recognize in the Brazilians as a 
nation their susceptibility to lofty impulses and emotions, 
their love of theoretical liberty, their natural generosity, 
their aptness to learn, their ready eloquence ; if also I miss 
among them something of the stronger and more persistent 
qualities of the Northern races, I do but recall a distinction 
which is as ancient as the tropical and temperate zones 
themselves. 
