Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1913 — Nation of Individuals. [ARTICLE]

Nation of Individuals.

The French nation is a mass of individual particles, scintilating, assertive—strangers to all the ethics of cohesion. They are incapable of team work. Tou never read of French football or base ball or organized sports. They are a nation of individualists, brilliant individualists. Their philosophy, poetry, art, music, science, literature, all bear the imprint of a superlndlvidnallsm that has filled the world with its radiance. They defy every known law of human gravitation and fly off In a million fragments, careless of results. They have the child’s love for the doing, and the child's scorn for the thing done, They begin more processes, inventions, contrivances, experiments, and end fewer, than all the rest of Europe put together. The French propose, the Germans and the English dispose.