Excerpt from Germany Seen Without Spectacles
Many German travellers, as well as English and French, who have had the courage to cross the Atlantic for the sake of seeing what sort of a country America is, and what sort of a people inhabit it, have written letters to their friends and newspapers in the old country, and have even had the audacity to publish books, which have been anything but complimentary to America or Americans in their criticisms and descriptions of American characteristics, and of the habits and customs of the people. To do this they have a perfect right. Free discussions and criticisms even if carried on by the pen, in describing any nation's peculiarities and shortcomings, are considered allowable and legitimate, and often are the means of correcting many social evils and absurdities which nothing but the pen can improve or exterminate. The severe castigations which Americans received through the books written on America by Dickens, Trollope, and other writers, although read by many with indignation and humiliation, yet undoubtedly were beneficial as the means of dispelling a large amount of foolish national egotism and banishing many absurd customs and ridiculous practices which had before existed.
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