Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... future , and predicted seces- 3 sion and war between the sections . These predictions were not unrelated to the real war that followed , for the way in which certain imaginative nineteenth - century men 2 The Partisan Leader ; A Tale of ...
... future , and predicted seces- 3 sion and war between the sections . These predictions were not unrelated to the real war that followed , for the way in which certain imaginative nineteenth - century men 2 The Partisan Leader ; A Tale of ...
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... future became itself a cause of that future . Certain images loomed with accumulating force until the possibility they foresaw came to seem unavoidable . prophecy of civil war was ultimately self - fulfilling . The On a conscious level ...
... future became itself a cause of that future . Certain images loomed with accumulating force until the possibility they foresaw came to seem unavoidable . prophecy of civil war was ultimately self - fulfilling . The On a conscious level ...
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... future ) as well . To him permanent . this meant that the state of mind of the child should be In Nature he declared that " few adult persons can see nature , " but children could see it . " The sun illu- minates only the eye of the man ...
... future ) as well . To him permanent . this meant that the state of mind of the child should be In Nature he declared that " few adult persons can see nature , " but children could see it . " The sun illu- minates only the eye of the man ...
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