I was too much given to dwell upon intellectual gifts.

These the Duc seemed to lack.

I credited him with having let them be merged in his one noble idea.
He furnished me with statistics.

They had laid down so many miles of railways, used so many engines of British construction.

They had taught the natives to use and to value sewing-machines and European costumes.
So many hundred of English younger sons had gone to make their fortunes and, incidentally, to enlighten the Esquimaux--so many hundreds of French, of Germans, Greeks, Russians.