We may distrust and dislike much that is done in the name of our country by our fellow-countrymen; but our country itself, its democratic system, and its prosperous future are above suspicion.
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Englishmen return thanks to Providence for not being born anything but an Englishman, in churches and ale-houses as well as in comic operas.

The Frenchman cherishes and proclaims the idea that France is the most civilized modern country and satisfies best the needs of a man of high social intelligence.

The Russian, whose political and social estate does not seem enviable to his foreign contemporaries, secretes a vision of a mystically glorified Russia, which condemns to comparative insipidity the figures of the "Pax Britannica" and of "La Belle France" enlightening the world.

Every nation, in proportion as its nationality is thoroughly alive, must be leavened by the ferment of some such faith.
But there are significant differences between the faith of, say, an Englishman in the British Empire and that of an American in the Land of Democracy.