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no one can be heroic in any place, or in any way, other than to which one is predisposed by one’s physical and spiritual make-up.

they are convinced that this museum constitutes the sole worthy and genuine abode of European humanity today.

with its outmoded yet eminently alluring attractions, does appear to have endured as a sort of reservation, a national park of the European ways of life, if you will.

Let me conclude by reiterating the wisdom that no one can be a hero except in the way he knows best.

Some are willing to die for a cause. The Swiss are willing to live for theirs. Modesty prevents them from saying what that cause is, though