Americans and Others
Americans and Others

Americans and Others

Americans and OthersA great deal has been said and written during the past few years on the...
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Author: Repplier, Agnes,1855-1950
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Americans and Others

Americans and Others

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Americans and Others

Americans and Others

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Author: Repplier, Agnes,1855-1950
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Americans and Others

A great deal has been said and written during the past few years on the subject of American manners, and the consensus of opinion is, on the whole, unfavourable. We have been told, more in sorrow than in anger, that we are not a polite people; and our critics have cast about them for causes which may be held responsible for such a universal and lamentable result. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, for example, is by way of thinking that the fault lies in the sudden expansion of wealth, in the intrusion into the social world of people who fail to understand its requirements, and in the universal "spoiling" of American children. He contrasts the South of his childhood, that wonderful "South before the war," which looms vaguely, but very grandly, through a half-century's haze, with the New York of to-day, which, alas! has nothing to soften its outlines. A more censorious critic in the "Atlantic Monthly" has also stated explicitly that for true consideration and courtliness we must hark back to certain old gentlewomen of ante-bellum days. "None of us born since the Civil War approach them in respect to some fine, nameless quality that gives them charm and atmosphere." It would seem, then, that the war, with its great emotions and its sustained heroism, imbued us with national life at the expense of our national manners. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 16722
Author: Repplier, Agnes
Release Date: Sep 19, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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