You evidently think that God made only the English.

The English are a peculiar people.

Their worst is better than the best of the exterior nations.

Over the rest of the world He has cast out His shoe.

Even supposing that a foreigner does, by extraordinary exception, some good thing, it's only in reaction from having murdered somebody last year, or at least left his children to starve the year before.
Truth, generosity, nobleness of will and mind, these things do not exist beyond the influence of the 'Times' newspaper and the 'Saturday Review.' (By the way, it would be extraordinary if it _were so_.') Well, I have lived thirteen years on the Continent, and, far as England is from Italy, far as the heavens are from the earth, I dissent from you, dissent from you, dissent from you.
I say so, and there is an end.