The Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in the WestThe Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in the West by James Partridge Arthur, first published in 1866, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... opinion , may be best and soonest obtained , if every county in the land were made a kind of subordinate commonalty or commonwealth . ” - Milton . " The Reformation made another enormous stride , when at the American Revolution the ...
... opinion , and " locality " would thus hold its own against centralisation ; each Individual , on the other hand , helping to constitute the national opinion and Sovereignty , would also help to set aside and coerce any traitorous abuse ...
... opinion , diplomacy , or arms , for Equality , against all opponents . War for a Principle , is not favourable to criticism of it . In its mighty reaction against an Inequality of four thousand years , has been concerned chiefly to ...
... opinion with truth . Whatever else she does , America will not go back to Oligarchy . The results of national life are cumulative , and it is not for nothing that the Anglo - American nation has been true to the principles of its origin ...
... opinion . ― The second , is that they make no allowance for the momentum of ideas , and of passions , in great crises . For the logic , which having committed men to a side , carries them on to lengths they did not intend ; for the ...