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they rest so long as there is enough food to munch and mud to wallow in. And dear old England has plenty of both. A race that adopts one method for doing every thing cannot excel in many things. In paving roads, filling teeth, writing poetry, or making love, the Englishman adopts his only reliable style, that is the sledge-hammer method. This method produces strength, strength yields well the sledge hammer, sword to, but [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] retards the pen the brush, and the mind from travelling in the brightest, cleverest, and most elevating channels. Because strength tends toward fighting, and sluggish heaviness. These are my reasons for my beliefs regarding the English and the Arts. I pity them, for it is not their fault it is the fault of their d-med climate. Please ask Sumner Pearmin where Robertsons hangs out his shingle. I can find him not. Those sketches are of