Primitiveness. ‘“Civitisep Country.” * 

Furniture.— Manners—Boston cabs. Hotel organisation, stace 
coaches, 17th-century travel. Alongside hypermodern features— 
even in rooms. Window fastenings—roller blinds—keys—double 
locks. 

Country of unexpected contrasts: more railways than roads and 
the latter appalling—coop plank ROAD—ELEVATED RAILWAYS above and 
dreadful pavement below—log cabins but carpets and pianos 
inside—indeed, even the bourgeois Yankees and the feudal 
Canadians alongside them—the idyllic Hoboken and insects close to 
New York. 

Publicness of life, in contrast to England. Only bedrooms 
private, and even these scarcely so (fanlights, ventilation).— Hat, 
OFFICE, WRITING ROOM, LADIES’ PARLORS; heaters make it unnecessary to keep 
rooms closed even in winter, and so it does not exist. Loarinc about in 
the hotels. 

Greeks in Rome in the last days of the republic. 

Religion— their theory, to be grasped historically. Go-aneap 
NATION—pushing past, not being able to see anyone walking or 
standing in front of them. Even in Boston, and worst there on 
account of the narrow streets—women too. 

Spitting — privies—hypocrisy about drink not only in prohibition 
states—nobody drinks in public—prudery—Rrooster and ROACHES. 

Opposite to Canada.—French Canadians really detached from 
France by the Revolution and have preserved the feudalism 
guaranteed by the conquest—they are going to ruin—Falls 
opposite Niagara ‘**’—empty houses, bridges, etc.—Emigration to 

New England, where they replace the Chinese.— English Canadians 
also slow, even in Toronto much dilapidation. 

The Americans unable to enjoy. 

The Americans unable to walk—either rush or loaf. 

Provincials.* 

Foundation the old solid petty bourgeois, small townsman and 
small peasant of the 17th-18th centuries. He is everywhere 
unmistakable with his wooden fashion, but also forms the solid 
foundation amidst wild speculation, just like the Swiss, to whom a 
certain resemblance. 

Obtrusiveness of American manners: Doctor, City of Berlin? 

Get up early. 

New York—harbour—beauty.— Natural setting for the centre 
of capitalist production—and how this destiny is fulfilled. First 
evening impression, dazzling, pavements, dirt, noise, horrible. By 
day even more ugliness—telegraph poles, overhead railways, signs 
crossways, company signs, architecture hidden, throngs of people, 
carriages, TRAMs and Elevated far above London, ugly, disfigured, 
everywhere advertisements, obtrusiveness. Croupier type. Haggard 
appearance of the people, even the women. Shops dazzling 
compared with Londen, and in greater numbers. This the gateway 
to the promised land. Ghastly noises at sea and on land. Noise 
from the carts, one makes more than ten in Europe. All aesthetics 
trampled underfoot as soon as momentary profit comes in view. 

Horses like the people: elements of a good stock, not yet ready. 
Mostly lighter than in England—-in Canada, on the other hand, 
thoroughly English type. 

Résumé: capitalist production is overexploitation. Adirondacks 
forest devastation—nowhere else timber forest either (Isle of 
Gnats perhaps excepted). 

Railways poor, slow, stopping train, delay and wait in Buffalo, 
incomprehensibly long halt at the stations; few trains per day; long 
bends, hence the long carriages (cf. street corner tracks in New 
York—rxeEvaTep), rolling, due to elasticity of the beams and the 
trembling, sea-sickness. 

Americans no nation. 5-6 different types, held together by the 
need for cohesion forged in the Civil War,*” and the feeling that 
they have in them the making of the greatest nation of the 20th 
century. 

Genuinely capitalist *: 

Business is concluded in a strictly businesslike manner. No tips. 
Anyone who gives them in situations where we would consider 
them unavoidable is then thoroughly exploited as a GREENHORN. 

The parvenu—national character. 

Educated persons commonly display great self-possession, others 
at least show confidence and assurance to the point of import- 
unity.