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American subject and described American scenery.
Mr. Downing has mentioned to me Horace
Mann, as one of the persons who have most
effectually labored for the future, as an individual who
has brought about by his enthusiasm and determination
a great reform in the field of instruction,
who has labored for the erection of beautiful new
schools in all parts of the country, and has infused
a new life into the organization of schools. It
appears that the reformers and lecturers who
develop the spiritual and intellectual life in America
and arouse its ideal, come from the Northern
States, from New England, and in particular from
Massachusetts, the oldest home of the Pilgrims
and the Puritans.
Mr. Downing has drawn up for me a proposed
route of travel—the plan of a journey for one year
through the United States, and has furnished me
with letters to his friends in the different states.
I still had a deal to say to you about my happiness
in being here, my happiness in the new vitality
which seems given to me, although I feel that the
outer life is a little wearisome sometimes; and I
expect to have to pay for it one of these days.
But ah! how few there are who have to complain
of having too many objects of interest, of
experiencing too much good will!
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