Excerpt from In the Land of the Strenuous Life Modest readers of America, be indulgent toward me! Iam ready to admit, if you insist on it, that you have numerous defects; and, since you do nothing by halves, I am sure that you are capable of carrying them further than any other nation - first in the world always! But consider, I beseech you, that circum stances have prevented me from noting these defects. As you will find out for yourselves, I have had the misfortune to encounter in your interesting country only honest ...
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Excerpt from In the Land of the Strenuous Life Modest readers of America, be indulgent toward me! Iam ready to admit, if you insist on it, that you have numerous defects; and, since you do nothing by halves, I am sure that you are capable of carrying them further than any other nation - first in the world always! But consider, I beseech you, that circum stances have prevented me from noting these defects. As you will find out for yourselves, I have had the misfortune to encounter in your interesting country only honest folk, and perhaps the best that are there. On my next journey I hope to be more fortunate, and am counting on your help to enable me to meet the other sort. But let us talk seriously (and a Frenchman is some times capable of that). Even if I had noticed your defects, what purpose would it serve to exhibit them to my countrymen? We have enough of our own with out giving ourselves the trouble to go so far in quest of others. What I proposed to myself, in crossing the Atlantic, was to seek in your country the profitable example of certain virtues which you possess in a very high degree, and which we in some measure lack. As a sort of representative of a commercial establishment in the moral realm, I went to select, among the vari ous products of your land, those which ours does not supply in sufficient quantity, and upon my return to distribute them as widely as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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