. Old New England churches and their children. m to seethe end before most people would have graspedthe beginning; seeing the end, they lived upto it every minute, and had little time toloose their emotions upon trivialities. We havenever been known either as great weepers or as anexceptionally laughter-loving folk, but we under-stand both laughter and tears, and at the sametime we furnish more material for both than anyother nation on the face of the earth. In the Dutch we find a people whose heroismwas comparable with the heroism of the Americancolonists; but to us it loses slightly because
. Old New England churches and their children. m to seethe end before most people would have graspedthe beginning; seeing the end, they lived upto it every minute, and had little time toloose their emotions upon trivialities. We havenever been known either as great weepers or as anexceptionally laughter-loving folk, but we under-stand both laughter and tears, and at the sametime we furnish more material for both than anyother nation on the face of the earth. In the Dutch we find a people whose heroismwas comparable with the heroism of the Americancolonists; but to us it loses slightly because ofDutch phlegmaticism. When the Dutch declaredthat when they had eaten one arm they stillwould fight with the other, we cannot help feelingthat the Dutch would have minded both thefeast and the fight somewhat less than we wouldhave done. A people of an extraordinarilyfine, nervous temper are a more remarkable ex-hibition in the arena than are they who whilebeing killed do not object to killing. We belong rather to the deliberate fighters than. iiifr
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