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upon by a nation no bigger and no better than our own.
We made the telegraph a practical thing. We invented
the fast press, the sewing-machine, the sleeping and par-
lor car, the telephone, the ironclad, we have done our
share for the century, we have introduced the foretelling
of the weather. Nobody writes a finer and purer English
than Motley, Howells, Hawthorne and Holmes.

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