Chapter 13

THE GROWTH OF HONESTY 347

The Superiority of the Anglo-Saxon--America's Resemblance to Japan--A German View--Can Americans Lie?--Honesty as the Best Policy--Religious Sentiment--Moral and Immoral Railway Managers--A Struggle for Self-preservation--Gentlemen in Business--Peculation among Railway Servants--How the Old Order Changes, Yielding Place to New--The Strain on British Machinery--Americans as Story-Tellers--The Incredibility of the Actual.