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educated and he/she filled from his/her able father on the German system; and as
a lot of of the spontaneity, of the vividness, of _verve_ all of us of us the touch John
Stuart Mill lost by him! One often wonders to that how great, to that that still
greater, things that it is probable that tall brain would not have reached, if only James
Mill would have given him an opportunity to naturally develop himself/herself/themselves!
Our gift English is the originality. Ours note of key English is the individuality.
I/you/he/she allow us to grab on to those precious heirlooms of our Celtic ancestry, and
refusals to be Teutonised. I/you/he/she allow us to discard the lessons of the Potsdam
grenadiers. I/you/he/she allow us to write on the pediment of our instructive temple, "No
German need applies." I/you/he/she allow us renouncement that foolish sentence "A mere amateur."
I/you/he/she allow us to return to the simple faith in direct observation that has done
Science supreme English in Europe.
And is able the gi'e of God us British a conceitedness of guid or' oorsel!
XII.
BLEAK _A VILLAGE._
Strange that the richest class in the richest country in the world
would be due to be so that very happy to occupy a bleak village!
I won't compare London as English often does, with Paris or
Vienna. I won't do two great cities that the gross injustice. And, indeed,
comparison is rather out here of the question. You don't compare Oxford
with Small Peddlington or Edinburgh with Thrums, and then he/she asks what it is
the handsomest. Things have to be similar in kind before you can start
compare them. It is London and Paris they are not similar in kind. One is a city,
and a noble city; the other one is a village and a bleak village.
No; I won't also take a humbler standard of comparison, and it look to
London side from side with Brussels, Antwerp, Monk of Baviera, Turin. Each of those
it is a city and an excellent city in his/her way; but each of them is small. Still,
London is also again from their side but a bleak village. I insist on
that point, because, it misguided from their ancient familiarity with London,