30 July 1928: The foundations of greatness can be found in the national character and the English climate, says historian
FLEET STREET, SATURDAY.
The English people passed with credit to-day when a searching examination of the national character was made by Mr. H. A. L. Fisher for the benefit of members of the City of London vacation course. He was lecturing on the foundations of England. These he summed up as being, first, a good climate and a central geographical position, and, secondly, a national character, active rather than contemplative, moderate in its passion, singularly free from envy and rancour and the settlement of revenge, respectful of social differences, adventurous, sensitive to the code of public duty, and with that underlying seriousness without which no great achievement was possible.
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