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American Ideals

American Ideals

Pierson, W. W.
Foerster, Norman
Foerster, Norman

Paperback

General United States History

ISBN10: 1516804686
ISBN13: 9781516804689
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 8 2015
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Before our war we were to Europe but a huge mob of adventurers and shopkeepers. Leigh Hunt expressed it well enough when he said that he could never think of America without seeing a gigantic counter stretched all along the seaboard.'' It is the Civil War that James Russell Lowell referred to in this passage; it is the Civil War that revealed once more, as the War of Independence had also revealed, the idealism of those remote forbears of ours who came to this continent not to seek gold, but God. But after the Civil War, our material prosperity grew apace, until our ideals seemed gradually to become dimmer and, in the view of many ob- servers, both foreign and American, faded away altogether. And now, having accepted our responsibilities in world affairs, we believe that we shall reveal once again some of the ideals we have cherished in the past and some of the new ideals that the age calls for.

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