[Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn]@TWC D-Link bookBooks and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn CHAPTER VII 25/39
Moderation inevitably develops a certain habit of justice--a justice that might not extend outside of the race, but a justice that would be exercised between man and man of the same blood.
Very much of English character and of English history is explained by the life that the "Havamal" portrays.
Very much that is good; also very much that is bad--not bad in one sense, so far as the future of the race is concerned, but in a social way certainly not good.
The judgment of the Englishman by all other European peoples is that he is the most suspicious, the most reserved, the most unreceptive, the most unfriendly, the coldest hearted, and the most domineering of all Western peoples.
Ask a Frenchman, an Italian, a German, a Spaniard, even an American, what he thinks about Englishmen; and every one of them will tell you the very same thing.
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