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CHAPTER IX. 



OURSELVES, AND OTHERS. 



AND, speaking of Jingoism, it was well and 

 wisely said by one having authority to pass 

 judgment, that this element, so noticeable 

 during the happily blown-over Venezuelan 

 disturbance, owed no small share of its 

 virulence to the personal feeling aroused by 

 the deportment of the English individual in 

 this country. The accusation is unfortu- 

 nately a true one. As immigrants we cannot 

 at least, in our initiatory years be said to 

 shine. 



The reasons for this failure are various. 

 We assimilate too slowly with our environ- 

 ment, hug our ignorance, or our self-conceit, 

 too closely in short, we think we ' know it 

 all,' and are not willing to learn. Those of 

 us who have long made our home on this 



