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than that of this complex type which for 

 want of a better name we call the Anglo- 

 Saxon race. Think of the history of the 

 progress of Christian civilization, as com- 

 pared with that which the English people 

 have achieved. They were Spaniards 

 who first came here, we say, and gave 

 Christianity to the Western Hemisphere. 

 What has become of Spanish Christian- 

 ity in this northern continent, and what, 

 as a moral, intellectual, or spiritual force, 

 is it worth to-day in the southern ? What 

 impression has French civilization made 

 upon Algeria, or Russian upon Turkey, 

 or German or Italian upon Asia Minor 

 or Africa? The donkey-boy who runs 

 at your stirrup in the streets of Cairo 

 speaks, next to Arabic, the tongue of 

 the Greek or the Tuscan; but English 

 ideas, aspirations, fashions, traditions, are 

 those of which he knows the most. When 

 the Queen of England walks abroad she 

 leans, not upon one of her ow T n sturdy 

 Islanders, but upon the arm of an Indian 

 servant from Bombay. Go to the country 

 from which her favorite servant and sub- 

 ject comes. The old traditions, the old 

 religions, the old prejudices and animosi- 



