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English, - - ever crystallize into a symmetrical form - 

 something distinct and homogeneous? And what will that 

 national character be? 



Certainly no one, who looks at our comparative isola- 

 tion --at the broad ocean that separates us from such 

 external influences - - at the mighty internal forces of new 

 government and new circumstances, which continually act 

 upon us, - - and, above all, at the mighty vital force of the 



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Yankee Constitution, which every year swallows hundreds 

 of thousands of foreigners, and digests them all; no one can 

 look reflectingly on all this, and not see that there is a 

 national type, which will prevail over all the complexity, 

 which various origin, foreign manners, and different religions 

 bring to our shores. 



The English are, perhaps, the most distinct of civilized 

 nations, in their nationality. But they had almost as mixed 

 an origin as ourselves, Anglo-Saxon, Celts, Roman, 



