The of New York was to me. I write onset. It is indeed that. New York rides up out of the waters, a cliff of man's making; its great buildings at a distance seem like long Chinese banners held up against the sky. From Sandy Hook to the great landing stages and the traffic of the Hudson River there fails nothing in that magnificent of approach.  
And New York keeps the promise of its first appearance. There is no such fulness of life elsewhere in all the world. The common man in the streets is a bigger common man than any Old World city can show, bigger; there is hope in his eyes and a . New York may be harsh and blusterous and violent, but there is a breeze from the sea and a breeze of fraternity in the streets, and the Americans of all peoples in the world are a nation of still unbroken men.
 
I went to America curious, balancing between hope and scepticism. The European world is full of the criticism of America, and for the matter of that America too is full of it; and prevail,—overmuch, for in spite of rawness and and a scum of , oh! quite , the United States of America the greatest country in the world and the living hope of mankind. It is the break with the old tradition; it is the freshest and most beginning that has ever been made in human life.
 
Here was the of India; here were no peasants whatever, no traditional culture, no castes, ............