A Documentary History of American Thought and SocietyCharles Robert Crowe Allyn and Bacon, 1965 - 412 pages |
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... writers in literature . Emerson and Thoreau rejected what was for them a dead heritage . English and German romantics , French eclectics , Neo - Platonists , and the great Hindu writers were all grist for the new mills which would grind ...
... writers in literature . Emerson and Thoreau rejected what was for them a dead heritage . English and German romantics , French eclectics , Neo - Platonists , and the great Hindu writers were all grist for the new mills which would grind ...
Page 141
... writers used representations of Graeco- Roman republicanism to lend stability and to suggest continuity with the past as well as to counteract the “ aristocratic " interpretations of Classical culture . ( The marble togas of Washington ...
... writers used representations of Graeco- Roman republicanism to lend stability and to suggest continuity with the past as well as to counteract the “ aristocratic " interpretations of Classical culture . ( The marble togas of Washington ...
Page 240
... writers as " Caucasian , " " Nordic , " " Aryan , " " North European , " " Anglo - Saxon , " and some thought that the Anglo - Saxons had attained their greatest development on the Amer- ican scene . The racist writers defended the ...
... writers as " Caucasian , " " Nordic , " " Aryan , " " North European , " " Anglo - Saxon , " and some thought that the Anglo - Saxons had attained their greatest development on the Amer- ican scene . The racist writers defended the ...
Contents
PURITANISM AND THE ORIGINS | 1 |
PURITANISM AND POLITICS | 10 |
THE ARTS THE SCIENCES AND PURITANISM | 20 |
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American Anarchism AUTHORS beauty believe called Catholic century Charles Peirce Christian churches civilization common conception Constitution Cotton Mather culture democracy democratic doctrine earth economic Emerson England equal established evil existence experience fact faith force freedom George Ripley Henry Henry Thoreau Herman Melville human ican ideas immigrant Indians individual industrial institutions intellectual Jacksonian James James Fenimore Cooper Jefferson John John Dewey labor land legislation liberty living major mankind means ment mind modern moral nature Negro never party philosophy poet political principle progress Protestant Puritan race Ralph Waldo Emerson reason reform religion religious Republican Revolution Romantic SELECTIONS sense slave slavery social society soul South Southern spirit struggle Theodore Parker things Thomas Jefferson Thoreau thought tion Transcendentalists truth Union Unitarian United universal Utopian virtue wealth William William Ellery Channing wished writers