The Future in America: A Search After Realities:

What the visiting foreigner takes away from America -will always hear a fixed proportion to what he brings. "I felt instinctively," says Mr. Wells, ' "that Boston could never possibly understand the light traveling of a philosophical carpet-beggar." He makes no secret, indeed, of his conviction that the Bostonians do not know what to forget. We find him impatient of pilgrimages to Mount Vernon and Concord and other shrines, excusing himself on the ground that the English are such a young pe...