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I, perhaps, might venture to claim that it was a medicine for what is the most objectionable feature of our national character; and that is self-conceit, an un due appreciation of ourselves, an exaggerated estimate of our achievements, of our inventions, of our contribu tions to popular comfort, and of our place, in fact, in the great procession of the ages. We seem to imagine, that whether knowledge will die with us, or not, it certainly began with us. We have a pitying estimate, a tender pity, for the narrowness, ignorance, and dark ness of the bygone ages. We seem to ourselves not only to monopolize, but to have begun, the era of light.
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