All goes at heavy
trot with us... I fell again quickly into my obscure habits, more
fit for me than the fine things I had seen. I made my best
endeavor to praise the rich country I had seen, and its
excellent, energetic, polished people. And it is very easy for
me to do so. England is the country of success, and success has
a great charm for me, more than for those I talk with at home.
But they were obstinate to know if the English were superior to
their possessions, and if the old religion warmed their hearts,
and lifted a little the mountain of wealth. So I enumerated the
list of brilliant persons I had seen, and the [break in MS.].
But the question returned. Did you find kings and priests? Did
you find sanctities and beauties that took away your memory, and
sent you home a changed man with new aims, and with a discontent
of your old pastures?"
Here the fragment ends. Emerson's answer to these questions may be
found in the chapter entitled "Results," in his _English Traits._
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Nay, there is another practical question,--but it is from the
female side of the house to the female side,--and in fact
concerns Indian meal, upon which Mrs.
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