The book Introducing the American Spirit was written by author Steiner, Edward Alfred, 1866-1956 Here you can read free online of Introducing the American Spirit book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Introducing the American Spirit a good or bad book?
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'* Who but an Oriental could invent such highly pic- turesque figures of speech ? " The conversation drifted into soberer chan- nels when our host took up the question as to what constitutes the American, who after all is hybrid and frequently so mixed that he does now know just how he is ethnically constituted. " For instance, " he said, " I am part Ger- man, part revolutionary Yankee stock " (it seemed to me that he put the emphasis upon the revolutionary), " part French, part Scan- dinavian,... part Irish. '* I have forgotten just how many racial strains he said were running in his veins, but a variety large enough to be exceedingly useful to him in claiming kinship with all sorts of folk, and in making political speeches. That the ancestors of the average American I20 Introducing the American Spirit belong to the great fighting stocks of hu- manity may explain if not excuse his love for physical combat. Each guest around the table followed the editor's example and ac- counted for his ancestry, showing that all but two of the Americans were mixtures, ranging from three to eight more or less greatly differ- entiated races, using that term in its broadest sense.
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