No patriotism
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certain smell taint of having
consulted authorities.—
The English dread of
being ^quizzed or laughed at—a
[deletion]^—a certain formality & limit— ne as of one who has
never lost a clergyman's
restraint metes & bounds—
Of course ^the amount of what Emerson gives us is better than
the old conventionalism of literature, but the da
Instead of ^the Storm beating, the wind
blowing, free, the the
savage throat, the ecstasy and abandon of the
prarie, the dashing
sea, we have
always a polite person,
amid a well-dressed assembly,
in a parlor, talking
about Plutarch,
Astronomy, ? ? good behaviour, the
impropriety of
laughing &c.
and evidently
dominated by the
English
A certain
snobbishness
even—
what is the good
if ^after all it ^really only substi-
tutes another
conventionalism
We want freedom,
strength faith,
self-support, cleanness
What have we?
