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phrases of self-love and vanity which still
exercise so great a power over the easily
excited spirit of the nations.
But if we set our thoughts free, confined as
they are by warm devotion to our hereditary
soil, and now and then venture to look out
over the wide world, we shall see points of
contact in the progressive effort of humanity;
and it is our highest honour to be able to
take an active part in this. Barriers are
crumbling away one after the other. They
do not go down with violence; they vanish as
new ideas smooth the way for a higher
conception of human dignity. Inquiry dissipates
prejudice, and continually shows us new phases
of the inner cohesion of the life of nations.
The inhabitants of Europe, says Draper,
show a constantly increasing disposition towards
the complete levelling of their mutual
dissimilarities. Climatic and meteorological differences
are more and more dissolved by artificial means
and new inventions; and thence arises a
similarity, not only in habits of life, but in physical
conformation. Such inventions soften the
influences to which men are subjected, and bring
them nearer to an average type. With this
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