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tongue, and the decided tone of the English expression.
The loud voice : the hard squeeze by the hand; the instant
assent or dissent : the clamorous joy : the bitter wailing :
the ardent friendship : the deadly enmity : the love that
makes people kill themselves : the hatred that makes
them kill others . All these belong to the characters of
Englishmen, in whose minds and hearts every feeling
exists in the extreme . To decide the question, which
character is, upon the whole, best , the American or the
English, we must appeal to some third party . . .
That most Englishmen still retained the oral, passionate
wholeness of character seemed as obvious to Cobbett as to
Dickens. And Cobbett does not hesitate to observe that book
culture had created the new man in America. The new man has
literally taken to heart the message of print, and put on “the