Environment often produces a certain comfortable largeness of mental vision.
One has only to compare in this particular a man from Russia with a man from Holland, or still better, a man from Texas with a man from Connecticut.
The difference is easy to see, and easier to feel. It is possible that the man from the smaller district may be more subtle, or he may have had better educational advantages; but he is likely to be more narrow.
A Texan told me once that it was eighteen miles from his front door to his front gate; now I was born in a city block, with no front yard at all. I had surely missed something.
One has only to compare in this particular a man from Russia with a man from Holland, or still better, a man from Texas with a man from Connecticut.
The difference is easy to see, and easier to feel. It is possible that the man from the smaller district may be more subtle, or he may have had better educational advantages; but he is likely to be more narrow.
A Texan told me once that it was eighteen miles from his front door to his front gate; now I was born in a city block, with no front yard at all. I had surely missed something.
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