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[i]
The Twentieth
Century American
Being
A Comparative Study of the Peoples of
the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations
BY
H. PERRY ROBINSON
AUTHOR OF "MEN BORN EQUAL," "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF A BLACK BEAR," ETC.
The Chautauqua Press
CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK
MCMXI
[ii]
Copyright, 1908
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
[iii]
To
Those Readers,
Whether English or American,
who
agree with whatever is said in the
following pages in laudation of
their own Country
This Book
is Inscribed in the hope
that they will be equally ready to accept
whatever they find in praise
of
The Other.
[iv]
The British Isles and the United States.
A Comparison (see Chapter IV.)
[v]
PREFATORY NOTE
There are already many books about America; but the majority of thesehave been written by Englishmen after so brief an acquaintance with thecountry that it is doubtful whether they contribute much to Englishknowledge of the subject.
My reason for adding another volume to the list is the hope of beingable to do something to promote a better understanding between thepeoples, having as an excuse the fact that I have lived in the UnitedStates for nearly twenty years, under conditions which have given ratherexceptional opportunities of intimacy with the people of various pa