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Show Shakespeare's Mixed "Population." It is impossible to overestimate th Influence on the view of government with which Shakespeare, without Puritanism, Puri-tanism, invigorated the Anglo-Saxon mind both in England and America in the direction of at least freest investigation investi-gation of ecclesiastical principles and methods. American worldwldenesa, cosmopolitanism, or, If you please, that hospitality to all interests from anywhere any-where and everywhere, which is char acteristic of the United States, has its own method glorified in Shakespeare's intellectual procedure. Shakespeare's population is as mixed as our own. He had the American manner, with a myriad-minded past, and the mora vsrled and variable present. "Shakespeare "Shake-speare and the American Spirit," Dr. Frank, W. Gunsaulus, In National Magazine. |