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Show Shakespeare' Mixed "Population." It ls impossible to overestimate tts Influence on the Tlew of government with which Shakespeare, without Purl tanlsm, invigorated the Anglo-Saiot mind both in England and America U the direction of at least freest InTes!! gation of ecclesiastical principles and methods. American worldwldeness, cosmopolitanism, or, if you please, that hospitality to all interests from any-where any-where and everywhere, which is char acteristic of the United States, has in own method glorified in Shakespeare' Intellectual procedure. Shakespears's population ls as mixed as our own. H had the American manner, with myriad-minded past, and the mor varied and variable present. "Shakespeare "Shake-speare and the American Spirit," Cr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, in National Mat-azine. |