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the strongly different caracteristics of races & nations as I have been inclined to do for some years passed— still I don't call this studying psycology [[?]] more than learning the constellations is astronomy. However, the mental differences of peoples & individuals, (or is it not more their sentimental differences?) are certainly striking & interesting. More & more I realize that we are Anglo-Saxon to the core (or is it Puritan?) & try as I may to sympathize with another people's feelings, as for example the French— they remain foreign to me.