A CONTRAST OF ETHNOGENESIS (1/2)
"The Cavaliers [ancestors of Southerners] had many human failings...they fought, they drank, they swore, and they loved, as better men will neither fight, nor drink, nor swear, nor love—but they made no pretense to unusual sanctity, and they were a gallant, high-spirited, chivalrous, and generous race, of the pure Anglo-Saxon blood; and to this day their descendants compose the only really free portion of the English people. They were brave, honorable, social; loyal to their king, and loyal to the church. Knowing that earth could not be made a paradise, they did not, therefore, seek to turn the fair footstool of God into a gloomy hell.
Failings they had, but dishonor, sordid meanness, and mammon worship, they knew not; and they served their king and their church, with a loyal devotion that history has seldom paralleled. Their intellectual development was then not surpassed in Europe, and their moral culture was at least equal to that of their age."
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