I OFTEN feel that the relation which America now bears to Europe, both in fact and feeling, resembles in many ways the relation which England bore to Europe during most of the past century. It never took five days to cross the Channel, it is true; but...
I OFTEN feel that the relation which America now bears to Europe, both in fact and feeling, resembles in many ways the relation which England bore to Europe during most of the past century. It never took five days to cross the Channel, it is true; but all distance is relative and subjective, and the average enterprising American (especially in the East) thinks about as much to-day of running across to Europe as an Englishman in 1850 thought about going to France or Germany.