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english writers on america-第3部分
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and amiable in the English character。 We are a young people;
necessarily an imitative one; and must take our examples and models;
in a great degree; from the existing nations of Europe。 There is no
country more worthy of our study than England。 The spirit of her
constitution is most analogous to ours。 The manners of her people…
their intellectual activity… their freedom of opinion… their habits of
thinking on those subjects which concern the dearest interests and
most sacred charities of private life; are all congenial to the
American character; and; in fact; are all intrinsically excellent; for
it is in the moral feeling of the people that the deep foundations
of British prosperity are laid; and however the superstructure may
be time…worn; or overrun by abuses; there must be something solid in
the basis; admirable in the materials; and stable in the structure
of an edifice; that so long has towered unshaken amidst the tempests
of the world。
Let it be the pride of our writers; therefore; discarding all
feelings of irritation; and disdaining to retaliate the illiberality
of British authors; to speak of the English nation without
prejudice; and with determined candor。 While they rebuke the
indiscriminating bigotry with which some of our countrymen admire
and imitate every thing English; merely because it is English; let
them frankly point out what is really worthy of approbation。 We may
thus place England before us as a perpetual volume of reference;
wherein are recorded sound deductions from ages of experience; and
while we avoid the errors and absurdities which may have crept into
the page; we may draw thence golden maxims of practical wisdom;
wherewith to strengthen and to embellish our national character。
THE END
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