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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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