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The English and Germans, on the other hand, are 

 saved by great breadth and heartiness, and a consti 

 tutional tendency to coarseness of fibre which art 

 and civilization abate very little. What is to save 

 us in this country, I wonder, who have not the 

 French regnancy and fire, nor the Teutonic hearti 

 ness and vis inertia, and who are already in danger 

 of refining or attenuating into a high-heeled, short- 

 jawed, genteel race, with more brains than stomach, 

 and more address than character ? 



