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her future progress and prosperity, and sincere personal 

 gratitude toward her. I recognize in the Brazilians as a 

 nation their susceptibility to lofty impulses and emotions, 

 their love of theoretical liberty, their natural generosity, 

 their aptness to learn, their ready eloquence ; if also I miss 

 among them something of the stronger and more persistent 

 qualities of the Northern races, I do but recall a distinction 

 which is as ^ ancient as the tropical and temperate zones 

 themselves. 



