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of our social system.
We still show national weakness in our over-sensitiveness.
Probably all Europe cannot afford any one better fitted than Madame Blanc to discuss precisely those aspects of American life which she touches.
And when we consider that it is only a few years since Mr. Philbrick, our Educational Commissioner at the Paris Exposition of 1878, complained that he had never yet found a Frenchman who could be convinced that any American woman had ever studied Greek, we ought to be grateful to the French woman who has at last spoken with knowledge.
New York, Harper and Brothers, 1897.
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