Like most children, I was forced to gouge my eyes upon the words of the English novelist, Charles Dickens. While the name and the names of his characters which he procured while searching through cementaries as in Uriah Heap to David Copperfield, are timeless in the English epics of literature, no one very much pays attention the the author of these works.
As a note concerning the English caste of pomposity, which has now shackled the American person in a version of rich man poor man in the Age of Obama, I offer here a most interesting personal assessment of President Theodore Roosevelt of Charles Dickens.
For those who do not comprehend the nature of Theodore Roosevelt, he was American to the last fiber of his form, and he completely adhered to the judgment that no people and no nation were more exceptional than the American.
He came forth with fang and claw at the merest attempt or the extroverted slander by anyone against Americans.
Such was Charles Dickens who maligned Americans in his ignorant writings, which one finds now and again in the pestilent writings of the English of that era, as that little war in 1776, really cut off their testicles and impregnated those ovaries with a reality that Rule Britania was bettered every time by those Yanks.
King George never recovered, and his Queen was far worse like Roselyn Carter in being beaten by Ronald and Nancy Reagan, over that 1776 episode, and the contributing high seas battles along with New Orleans in the War of 1812.
Britain had devoured the world, but off her shores sat that people who reminded the world, she had been bettered by her battered offspring.
In that President Theodore Roosevelt writes his children about Dickens as they are currently reading many of Dickens works which are timeless. It is punch to the face and a kick to the groin prose which Roosevelt delivers to his children exposing Charles Dickens who was the worst sort of English snob of the European order, in being neither gentleman nor royal, his baseness thereby judges the Americans as base in being damned for that great crime of being American.
Exactly as the Obama regime in it's jihad against Americans on the Berliner boys order in the 21st century.
The Roosevelt letters concerning Charles Dickens.
TOM PINCH
White House, February 23, 1908.
DEAREST KERMIT:
I quite agree with you about Tom Pinch. He is a despicable kind of
character; just the kind of character Dickens liked, because he had
himself a thick streak of maudlin sentimentality of the kind that, as
somebody phrased it, "made him wallow naked in the pathetic." It always
interests me about Dickens to think how much first-class work he did and
how almost all of it was mixed up with every kind of cheap, second-rate
matter. I am very fond of him. There are innumerable characters that he
has created which symbolize vices, virtues, follies, and the like almost
as well as the characters in Bunyan; and therefore I think the wise
thing to do is simply to skip the bosh and twaddle and vulgarity and
untruth, and get the benefit out of the rest. Of course one fundamental
difference between Thackeray and Dickens is that Thackeray was a
gentleman and Dickens was not. But a man might do some mighty good work
and not be a gentleman in any sense.
"MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT"
White House, February 29, 1908.
DEAREST KERMIT:
Of course I entirely agree with you about "Martin Chuzzlewit." But the
point seems to me that the preposterous perversion of truth and
the ill-nature and malice of the book are of consequence chiefly
as indicating Dickens' own character, about which I care not a rap;
whereas, the characters in American shortcomings and vices and follies
as typified are immortal, and, moreover, can be studied with great
profit by all of us to-day. Dickens was an ill-natured, selfish cad and
boor, who had no understanding of what the word gentleman meant, and no
appreciation of hospitality or good treatment. He was utterly incapable
of seeing the high purpose and the real greatness which (in spite of the
presence also of much that was bad or vile) could have been visible all
around him here in America to any man whose vision was both keen and
lofty. He could not see the qualities of the young men growing up here,
though it was these qualities that enabled these men to conquer the West
and to fight to a finish the great Civil War, and though they were to
produce leadership like that of Lincoln, Lee, and Grant. Naturally
he would think there was no gentleman in New York, because by no
possibility could he have recognized a gentleman if he had met one.
Naturally he would condemn all America because he had not the soul
to see what America was really doing.
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