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Excerpt from Theodore Bliss, Publisher and Bookseller: A Study of Character and Life in the Middle Period of the XIX Century
There can be no doubt that what remained of the old stock, in New England itself, bore the marks of a decadence. This was shown by the large number of unmarried men as well as unmarried women; by the small number of children born to married couples; by the rather feeble physique of this offspring when compared with that of the newer and more vigorous races. So the Yankee type, or American of New England, has been so disturbed that we must wait for many generations before anything so specialized and distinctive will appear again. We have Germans in America, Irish in America, Poles, Bohemians, Italians, Rumanians, and Syrians in America, but these are still distinct and segregated, or are only in process of amalgamation. We cannot predict what final type of man will be evolved. It is more than likely that, under favorable in?uences of government, secular and religious education, and domestic economy, a very superior race will be developed, but it will differ greatly from the homogeneous stock of the older settlers.
I feel that Theodore Bliss stands as an exceptionally good type of that older stock, and that the story of his life reveals the social conditions of the people of the middle class before the modern in?uences, I have enumerated, altered the course of social and race development, and turned the page on some finished chap ters of human life and endeavor in America.
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