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...Embalmed. Racially, says Baldwin, the Englishman was produced by combining the impulsive Celt and the reflective Saxon. The amalgam resulted in men who were half superstitious, half realistic. The superstitious half became concerned with ethical values, the realistic half with how to get ahead. Says Baldwin: ". . . Sound common sense taught him that in a practical world, while there might be some good, there must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed...
...Truth," says the author, "is the pedestaled goddess of the Anglo-Saxon world, yet the treatment she receives often makes her look like a slut." He agrees that the charge of hypocrisy commonly leveled against the Englishman is true. Perpetually riven "by the struggle between necessity and conscience," Englishmen can hardly be expected to be otherwise. But the main point, says Baldwin, is that the English conscience is always consulted...
...Spiritual Home. The result is that in "Anglo-Saxon society a man can attain permanent eminence only [by] showing real or ostensible moral stature." In turn, that fact has led to steady progress toward "the golden mean which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry...
...afternoon 24,000 men & women (a capacity crowd) paid $25,000 (boxoffice prices, not including scalpers' prices) to see three matadors risk their lives to kill six bulls artistically. As on every Sunday in recent weeks, some 2,000 U.S. citizens were in the crowd, confirming their Anglo-Saxon distaste or acquiring a new Latin love for bullfighting. For this is a big bullfighting season for gringos as well as mexicanos...
...choice of Sir William, a Scottish expert on Anglo-Saxon and the Scandinavian tongues, as editor of the DAE, was not as illogical as it might seem. Sir William spent 31 years on the great Oxford English Dictionary, was knighted for his stupendous scholarly labor. Before the last volume of the OED was out, he settled in Chicago for a ten-year stay, to grapple with U.S. lingo. His mountainous task was to find out what Americans had done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries...