America and the Americans from a French Point of ViewC. Scribner's Sons, 1897 - 293 strani |
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Stran 185 - I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
Stran 100 - And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.
Stran 263 - ... the tub to chat about the chemistry of soapbubbles. Not that a coachman may not enjoy a sunset, and a laundress wonder about the iridescence of a soap-bubble, but for the time being their thoughts should be of other things. Pork, not Plato, has made Chicago, and Chicago people have not arrived at a stage of civilization yet where they can with propriety or advantage change their allegiance.
Stran 185 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.
Stran 8 - divorce-breeding, and divorce-excusing women who are bad without vice, and good by the grace of God.
Stran 139 - In the last quarter of the nineteenth century the American Zeitgeist emphasized individualism and advancement and interpreted these goals primarily in terms of wealth and power. "The word 'enough,' " observed a French visitor, "is the loneliest, and the least often employed, word in the American vocabulary. There is no diversity of striving; all are striving for money, money, money. This makes the race fast and furious, and competition and rivalry bitter, 103 Gompers to Jerry O'Sullivan, September...
Stran 87 - It is considered symbolic of success to " have no time ! " While the very test of true success is, of course, to prove yourself master of time; for if one is the slave of time, he is perforce the slave to the thousand-and-one devils that haste has in its train.
Stran vii - A Frenchman, one of whose ancestors was a close friend of Lafayette, and who has enjoyed on two occasions the hospitality and welcome of many Americans, is said to be the author of this book.
Stran 101 - He has refuted Moses, dishonored the story of the Deluge, and speculated in the primary causes of the difference between whites and blacks. Think of a foreign minister," they sneered, "surprising him in the act of anatomizing the kidneys and glands of an African to find out why the Negro is black and odoriferous!
Stran 250 - There is no office in this needful world But dignifies the doer if done well...