Col Manly Monologue from The Contrast

From The Contrast by Royall Tyler

male · philosophical · 59 sec

Therefore I do not wish to see them; for I can never esteem that knowledge valuable which tends to give me a distaste for my native country. (DIMPLE: Well, Colonel, though you have not travelled, you have read.) I have, a little, and by it have discovered that there is a laudable partiality which ignorant, untravelled men entertain for everything that belongs to their native country. I call it laudable; it injures no one; adds to their own happiness; and, when extended, becomes the noble principle of patriotism. Travelled gentlemen rise superior, in their own opinion, to this: but if the contempt which they contract for their country is the most valuable acquisition of their travels, I am far from thinking that their time and money are well spent.

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