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For Some Years Past A Rising Tide Of Lecturers And Literary Men From
England Has Washed Upon The Shores Of Our North American Continent. The
Purpose Of Each One Of Them Is To Make A New Discovery Of America. They
Come Over To Us Travelling In Great Simplicity, And They Return In
The Ducal Suite Of The Aquitania. They Carry Away With Them Their
Impressions Of America, And When They Reach England They Sell Them. This
Export Of Impressions Has Now Been Going On So Long That The Balance
Of Trade In Impressions Is All Disturbed. There Is No Doubt That The
Americans And Canadians Have Been Too Generous In This Matter Of Giving
Away Impressions. We Emit Them With The Careless Ease Of A Glow Worm,
And Like The Glow-Worm Ask For Nothing In Return.