The American Spirit: A Basis for World DemocracyPaul Monroe, Irving Elgar Miller World book Company, 1918 - 336 pages |
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... individual action . Here is the protagonist of our New World epic , a figure as poetic as that of Achilles , 2 as ideally representative as that of Don Quixote , 3 as romantic in its relation to our homespun and plebeian mythus as ...
... individual action . Here is the protagonist of our New World epic , a figure as poetic as that of Achilles , 2 as ideally representative as that of Don Quixote , 3 as romantic in its relation to our homespun and plebeian mythus as ...
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... individual atoms of this democratic mass . Even as he dwelt among the stumps of his newly cut clearing , the pioneer had the creative vision of a new order of society . In imagina- tion he pushed back his forest boundary to the confines ...
... individual atoms of this democratic mass . Even as he dwelt among the stumps of his newly cut clearing , the pioneer had the creative vision of a new order of society . In imagina- tion he pushed back his forest boundary to the confines ...
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... individual happiness ; - that you should cherish a cordial , habitual , and immov- able attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its ...
... individual happiness ; - that you should cherish a cordial , habitual , and immov- able attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its ...
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... the absolute power of an Individual : and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction , more able or more fortunate than his competitors , turns this disposi- tion to the purposes of his own elevation , on 40 The American Spirit.
... the absolute power of an Individual : and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction , more able or more fortunate than his competitors , turns this disposi- tion to the purposes of his own elevation , on 40 The American Spirit.
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... individual men ; intercourse , association , correction of egotism by the influence of others ' judgment , broadening of views by the experience and thought of equals , acceptance of the moral standards of a community , the desire for ...
... individual men ; intercourse , association , correction of egotism by the influence of others ' judgment , broadening of views by the experience and thought of equals , acceptance of the moral standards of a community , the desire for ...
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Popular passages
Page 181 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land!
Page 17 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Page 75 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 64 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
Page 42 - I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Page 44 - ... establishing with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the Government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances, and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
Page 161 - O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America ! America ! God...
Page 41 - ... till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, pre-supposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities,...
Page 72 - Mr President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Page 173 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?