They Have Been Spoken In
Love - With A True Love, A Brotherly Love, A Love That Has Never Been
Absent From The Heart While The Brain Was Coining Them.
I had my
task to do, and I could not take the pleasant and ignore the
painful.
It may perhaps be that as a friend I had better not have
written either good or bad. But no! To say that would indeed be to
speak calumny of your country. A man may write of you truly, and
yet write that which you would read with pleasure; only that your
skins are so thin. The streets of Washington are muddy and her ways
are desolate. The nakedness of Cairo is very naked. And those
ladies of New York - is it not to be confessed that they are somewhat
imperious in their demands? As for the Van Wyck Committee, have I
not repeated the tale which you have told yourselves? And is it not
well that such tales should be told?
And yet ye will not forgive me; because your skins are thin, and
because the praise of others is the breath of your nostrils.
I do not know that an American as an individual is more thin skinned
than an Englishman; but as the representative of a nation it may
almost be said of him that he has no skin at all. Any touch comes
at once upon the net-work of his nerves and puts in operation all
his organs of feeling with the violence of a blow.
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