Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . ef from gene-ration to generation, and that the men whoauction these off to the dealers and the hotelsall over the city stand on the very spot ona certain pavement where the buyers whopreceded them have stood in direct line forover two hundred years! How many peopleare looking on and watching for the momentwhen anyone shall drop out! I am sure thatthis thought of dropping out at home is oneexplanation of why the French are no greatercolonizers; this and their national character,again. Much observat
Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . ef from gene-ration to generation, and that the men whoauction these off to the dealers and the hotelsall over the city stand on the very spot ona certain pavement where the buyers whopreceded them have stood in direct line forover two hundred years! How many peopleare looking on and watching for the momentwhen anyone shall drop out! I am sure thatthis thought of dropping out at home is oneexplanation of why the French are no greatercolonizers; this and their national character,again. Much observation, not only of theircharacteristics, but of the English, has ledme to deduct another reason for the Frenchlack of enterprise in colonizingfromtheattitudeof both towards the foreigner. EverythingFrench is always the best thing to everyFrenchman, as everything English is to theEnglishman. The difference between thetwo, however, is that to differ from an Eng-lishman is to be in the wrong. Then, with hisbelief in his mission for imposing his point ofview on the world, it becomes his moral duty. UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER.
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