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Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia
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An essay defining a true city as a place for intellectual social interaction, critiquing national prejudices between England, France, and America, and praising American society's diverse, inclusive mingling of people from various backgrounds.
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The satire with which England accuses Americans of love of money is beautiful. So every nation accuses the other not in as if it could be otherwise; men being such and money being such. Frenchmen say there is no genius in England, Englishmen retort the charge, French charges brutality on English journalism and English diplomacy. England retorts on the want of poetic genius, the corruptions of domestic life, the want of common sense, as England understands it, in all departments in France. So the one safe people for an American, un tingan Englishmmp, is France and Frenchmen, whom both can agree at pleasure.-- Everywhere one con- th" some nation- We are failar vitb the great netera neai-" I am a man as well as a Roman, and nothing human is foreign to me" Th. Frouoi wonnsavs:-"! am a woman awi s P.rsian, and noth. ang f ralag to me anogare aitegether hu- hut.
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The piece defines an ideal city for intellectual exchange, urges overcoming national prejudices exemplified by Anglo-French-American rivalries, and describes American society as a diverse, healthy mingling of people from different backgrounds at the foot of mountains.