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18S0.] English and American Physique . 
future be a union of the coarse and the fine organisations ; 
the solidity of the German, the fire of the Saxon, the deli- 
cacy of the American flowing together as one — sensitive, 
impressible, readily affedted through all the avenues of 
influence, but trained and held by a will of steel ; oiiginal, 
idiosyncratic, learned in this— that he knows what not to 
do, laborious in knowing what not to do ; with more of wiri- 
ness than of excess of strength, and achieving his purposes 
not so much through the absolute quantity of his force as in 
its adjustment and concentration. 
