No wellinformed person can read the name ALEXANDER MITCHELL without knowing at once that it originated in one of the least favored naturally of all the countries of the world. but one of the most distinguished spots beneath all the starsthe old Kingdom of Scotland. He was descended. evidently. of that virile. purposeful. and masterful race of people who have left their mark and their monuments throughout the Englishspeaking world. He came of a Scotch family that had emigrated to Ireland and later came to the United States. He represented a citizenship somewhat different from either one of the two original civilizations that were founded on this shore. We have the New England civilization and that other civilization that was founded at the mouth of the James River.
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The speaker generalizes about the 'virile, purposeful, and masterful race of people' from Scotland.