^ The Americo-Liberians 



New England and not of Africa. Dwelling on the West Coast 

 ot Africa, they still turn their faces and their intelligence towards 

 the east coast of North America, which again but reflects the 

 culture of eighteenth-century England. "Have done with this!" 



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their friends might say. *' Make yourselves polished Africans, 

 not imitation Anglo-Saxons. Study the languages of West 

 Africa, not Hebrew, Greek, and Latin ; or at any rate only 

 teach your boys a sufficient smattering of Greek and Latin that 

 they may understand the construction of that English language 



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