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Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
Patriotic Duty, in France and England, 91;
English and French ideas compared, _ib._;
volunteer movement in England, 92;
English army more professional than national, _ib._;
want of national feeling in the French army under the Second
Empire, 93;
revolution in public opinion under the Republic, 94;
unity of sentiment between the French army and the nation, 95;
influence of national armies on peace and war, 96;
English repugnance to conscription, _ib._;
likely to be overcome, 97;
patriotism of the English in foreign policy during peace, 98;
absent in France except during war, _ib._;
confusion of patriotism with hatred, 99.
Patriotic Jealousy, between France and England, 85;
rivalry in Europe, _ib._;
in naval strength, _ib._;
equalities and resemblances, 86;
rivalry in Africa and the East, 86, 87;
English jealousy of French colonial enterprise, 87;
French jealousy of English possession of the Channel Islands, 88;
not to be settled by war, 87, 88;
difficulties of conquest on either side, 89;
jealousies reasonable and unreasonable, _ib._
Patriotic Pride, in France and England, 77;
strong in France before the Franco-German war, _ib._;
subdued by the loss of security, 78;
aristocracy humiliated by the establishment of the Republic, 79;
not wounded in England, 80;
strengthened by being the head of English-speaking nations, 81;
by underrating other nations, 82;
easy indifference of the French, 83;
hatred of France for her neighbours, _ib._
Patriotic Tenderness, in France and England, 65;
increasing in France and diminishing in England, _ib._;
loyal and pathetic as expressed in Black’s _Princess of Thule_, 66;
nourished by rural life, _ib._;
colonisation unfavourable to English patriotism, 67;
expression in composite states, _ib._;
increased by religion and poetry, but diminished by travel, _ib._;
causes of its diminution in England, 68;
dispersion of English middle-class families, 69;
reluctance of the French to emigrate, 70;
patriotic tenderness of the Irish, 70;
of the poet Wordsworth, 71;
attachment of the English to foreign countries, 72;
Robert Browning’s love for Italy, _ib._;
illusions of the French as regards France, 73;
provincial feeling stronger in France than in England, 74;
the words _pays_ and _patrie_, _ib._;
no cruel experience of invasion felt in England, 75;
varying intensity, 76
Patriotism, as opposed to impartiality in discussing foreigners, viii;
degenerates into _chauvinisme_, ix
Peasants, French, endurance in walking, 6;
their healthy and active lives in comparison with English factory
workers, 13
Pedestrianism, English ladies better walkers than French, 6
Photography, French superior to English, 399
Physical Education. See Education, French and English
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