In the Land of the Strenuous Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from In the Land of the Strenuous Life If I were to consider only your habit of asking visitors to your country, "How do you like America?" I might offer this book with entire confidence, since it is precisely an answer to your own repeated inquiry. Yet this response has not been prepared for you, but for others - for mere Europeans. On the other side of the water also, people have asked me, "What do you think of America?" I have told them, and they have listened with a certain measure of interest. And how can I expect you in America to lend your ears to a resident of the Old World who addresses himself to other inhabitants of the Old World? Is there any significance for you in these "Dialogues of the Dead"? I have another reason for hesitation. Not imagining that these pages would fall under your eyes, I wrote them under the influence of a sentiment which now brings me to some confusion, a sentiment for which I must crave your pardon. I wrote them, alas! with an excess of benevolence. In spite of some criticisms (only too rare and inadequate), I have said too much good of you, as I now humbly confess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.