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The English and Germans, on the other hand, are 

 saved by great breadth and heartiness, and a constitu- 

 tional 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 Teu- 

 tonic heartiness and vis inertice^ and who are already in 

 danger of refining or attenuating into a high-heeled, 

 short-jawed, genteel race, with more brains than stom- 

 ach, and more address than character ? 



