Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our European Ancestors: An Introduction to United States History
Questions that were once of hardly more than academic interest have become of the utmost practical importance. Such a question is that of the emigrant. The key to the problem is to understand the people who come to us by thousands. To understand our next-door neighbor, a person of the same blood bringing up, and traditions as ourselves, is not always easy. What is it then to understand a neigh bor who is the result of thousands of years of customs, be liefs, and teachings different from our own?
The first step is a sympathetic knowledge. Real citizens are not won by conquest, but by comprehension. How could I hate him? Asked Charles Lamb, the man of many friends. Don't I know him?
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