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a Chinese variety of the acacia family, I think,
which has leaves resembling those of our ash,
only much broader and bearing long pods. There
are also other kinds of trees, with taller trunks,
which give shade and a rural, peaceful character to
the thoroughfares. It is said that the merchants of
New York go over to Brooklyn, where they have their
houses and homes, to sleep.
The effect of my American journey is altogether
different from what I had expected. I came hither
to breathe a new and fresher atmosphere of life;
to observe the popular life, institutions, and
circumstances of a new country; to become clearer
in my own mind on questions connected with the
development of nations and people; and, in particular,
to study the women and the homes of the New World, and
from the threshold of the home to obtain a view of the
future of humanity, because, as the river is born from
the springs of heaven, so is the life and fate of a
people born from the private life of the home. I came,
in a word, to occupy myself with people’s affairs;
and it is private affairs, it is the individual which
attracts my interest, my feelings, my thoughts. I
came with the secret intention of breaking loose from
fiction and its subjects, and of living with thinkers
for other purposes; but I am compelled toward it more
forcibly than ever, compelled involuntarily both
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