[Zeno]

A salutation-speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth, Taken Down in Short-Hand by Mark Twain



" I bring your the stately named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched and dishonored from pirate-raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa and the Philippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boddle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass."

Mark Twain, New York, Dec. 31, 1900


Good ol' Mark did a bit of ranting against what he considered America's (and other countries) excessive "imperialism" or as he puts it, "The Blessings of Civilzation" during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Twain's essay, " To The Person Sitting in Darkness" is a prime example and very interesting to read.

-Zeno