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ciency. It is exhibited on a national scale by the 

 educated men who take the anti-American side of 

 international questions. There are exceptions to 

 the rule; but as a rule the healthy man, resolute to 

 do the rough work of the world, and capable of feel- 

 ing his veins tingle with pride over the great deeds 

 of the men of his own nation, will naturally take 

 the American side of such a question as the Monroe 

 Doctrine. Similarly, the anaemic man of refine- 

 ment and cultivation, whose intellect has been edu- 

 cated at the expense of his character, and who 

 shrinks from all these struggles through which alone 

 the world moves on to greatness, is inclined to con- 

 sider any expression of the Monroe Doctrine as truc- 

 ulent and ill advised. 



Of course, many strong men who are good citizens 

 on ordinary occasions take the latter view simply 

 because they have been misled. The colonial habit 

 of thought dies hard. It is to be wished that those 

 who are cursed with it would, in endeavoring to 

 emulate the ways of the Old World, endeavor to emu- 

 late one characteristic which has been shared by 

 every Old- World nation, and which is possessed 

 to a marked degree by England. Every decent 

 Englishman is devoted to his country, first, last, and 

 all the time. An Englishman may or may not dis- 

 like America, but he is invariably for England and 

 against America when any question arises between 

 them ; and I heartily respect him for so being. Let 

 our own people of the partially colonial type copy 

 this peculiarity and it will be much to their credit. 



