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Show THE FAULTS OF YOUTH. If "we analyze the worst among tho characteristics which I have called American, we find hypocrisy, sentimentality, senti-mentality, cruelty and boastfullnese, and they aro all qualities which, in tho individual arc characteristic of immaturity. And America is, In truth Very like a child at the awkward ags, exhibiting her faults very patently pat-ently and hiding her virtues. If ono accepts this as the explanation of many of those defects, they do not appear so very formidable, after all. Childishness, so long as It does not outlive its proper time, Is not a fault it is a condition; and perhaps It would show a more just discrimination discrimina-tion to regard those defocts which I have mentioned as symptoms rather than as qualities. The Americans are childish in everything in their simplicity sim-plicity of heart, in the gusto with which they address themselves to life, in their adherence to artificial and Imposed standards of conduct, In their tendency to talk too much, and I too much about themsolvcs; in their profound and admirable curiosity; In their whole-hearted desire to imitate or acquire what they admire in other people, and, at tho same tlmo. In their Innate distrust of peoplo who do not think exactly as thoy do. "American Traits," by Filson Young In Metropolitan Magazine |