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NE often reads or hears the expression, the 'soul' of a nation - thus, the soul Of France or the soul of England and one may come across some such sentence as Russia has found her soul.' What is the soul' of a country or nation P What do men mean, when they say that a nation is only great so long as she is true to her soul? What is the soul of England P What is the English spirit, if you will It is, some answer, the spirit of St. George, who rode out to the help of the weak and oppressed. It is, others will say, the spirit of Shakespeare, a kind and tender spirit, yet fond Of the frolic of life and revelling in all its rough realities. That modest, kind, gentle, laughter-loving and manly soul is the soul of England.
It is the spirit we find in the speaking beauty of the English countryside, in its still valleys, in its peaceful villages, and in its Old grey Churches. It is in the English singing. We find it, too, in the Old ballads, those wild flowers of our litera ture, and, indeed, in all our great writers. For the literature of a nation, even more than her art and music, is the expression of that nation's spirit. The English spirit is in Chaucer, in Shakespeare, and in Dickens.
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