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warm. To a moment when the immediate future didn't place problem in
so vital education as the relative energy and the persistence of north
and South, this momentary contact with Southern character was a
kind of education for his own cause; but this was not everything. No
you doubt the love proper of the Yankee which he/she naturally minded
you same-distrust of, you/he/she was adulated earning the slow sentence that
the Southerner, with his/her limitations that enslaved-possess it was as little
is all right for succeeding in the struggle of the modern life as if he were
he/she anchors a creator of axes of stone, living in the caverns and chasing the bos
primigenius, and that every quality in which he was strong, did
him more weak; but Adams had started to fear that you protect in this respect
it is probable that an eighteenth-century type doesn't differ deeply from another.
Protection of Roony had changed few from the Virginian of one century
before; but Adams he was a good quantity nearer him the type of his
great-grandfather that to that of a superintendent of platform. Him
it was a little more appropriate than the Virginians to treat with a future
America that showed anybody elaborate for the past. Already Northern
society betrayed a preference for economists on diplomatic or
soldiers--it is probable that one also call him/it a jealousy--against that
two eighteenth-century types had small opportunity to live, and what
they had in common for fearing.
Nothing short of this curious understanding would have been able to bring
you report near two young men so hostile as Protection of Roony and Henry
Adams but the principal difference among them as schoolboys
only consisted in their difference of scholarship: Protection was a
total failure; Adams a partial. Both they failed, but Protection felt his
failure more judiciously, so that he grabbed gladly the opportunity of
you escape accepting an errand offered him from General Winfield
Scott in the strength that is organized then against the Mormons. Him