She knows that he has no fixed design to hurt her. but he may stagger against her. moreover. he may ignorantly imagine that she has struck him and resent it in blows. -I am afraid of the man. whether foreign or native. whlo gropes about blindly. striking blindly against the wrongs that exist in the world without any information to teach him how or whither to strike. We have got enough of that ignorant resentfulness at home. we do not want to import any more of it from abroad. My advocacy of the literacy test is not based upon animosity and antagonism or prejudice against foreigners or any class of foreigners. but is grounded upon an absolute distrust and fear of. as well as an absolute antagonism to. ignorance itselfblind. groping. brutally striking. crass ignorancewhether it is here or whether it is imported from abroad. and there is no reason why. as legislators of a free American country. we should submit further to its importation. A very great nmai once said that no nation can ever hope to live free and ignorant at the same time. You can not only not hope to live free and ignorant at the same time. but you cii not hope to live largely free and largely ignorant at the same time.
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Foreigners are blindly striking against wrongs without information.