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Chapter 3: community life
Reasons for joining Brook Farm
Secretary and trustee
anecdote of Carl Schurz
condition and progress of the association
In the absence of any more positive statement than that given to his sister, the exact nguage to regard himself as competent to teach it. Many years afterwards, during the war between the States, as Major-General Carl Schurz, Mr. Dana, and I were riding from Knoxville to Chattanooga, those two distinguished dialecticians beguiled the hours in conversation carried on indifferently in both German and English.
In one of the pauses Dana remarked:
General Schurz, you speak English with greater purity and precision than any man I have ever known.
Whereupon General Schurz rejoGeneral Schurz rejoined:
Well, Herr Dana (which he pronounced with the broad a), you speak German better than any man I ever heard speak it who was not born and educated in Germany.
The compliment in each case seems to have been fully justified.
The Brook F
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 25 : epoch of public corruption (search)
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