The book French Traits An Essay in Comparative Criticism was written by author W C William Crary Brownell Here you can read free online of French Traits An Essay in Comparative Criticism book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is French Traits An Essay in Comparative Criticism a good or bad book?
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The settlement of the land question followed natur- ally upon the adoption of the Rights of Man, whereas the Revolution left the questions of trade and finance untouched in their provincial seventeenth-century status. Immigration and geographical situation go far to atone for the un-American stupidity of our tariff, but the same provincial spirit works much greater provincial results in France, where no good luck in the industrial field counterbalances the effects of subsidies and protection. T...he nation is at once the most industrious and the least industrial of the great nations. Notable exceptions there are ; but not only do these thrive at the expense of the mass, but, these included, the business of the nation seems, by comparison with that of England and our- selves, exaggeratedly retail, where indeed traces of its activity are not altogether lacking. An English- man notes at once the tremendous depleting cost of consuming only native manufactures. An American remarks a surprising absence of business of all kinds, except in the luxuries and decorations of life.
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