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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... American Society . America has left behind it the cerements of the feudal system , hereditary aristocracy , primogeniture , entails , and the esta- blished Church . " - Goldwin Smith . " Individuality will be a term of greater ...
... nation that is not also a Democracy : here is at least something like finality in politics , for here are completeness of power and universality of right . Such nations and Democracies can alone enter as Units into still vaster Federal ...
... America are now completing . Her material re- sources are unequalled . Her ... America has waged for national Life , was also a contest for Morality and ... Nation is at last definitively consti- tuted . The People sit at last in ...
... nation could advance . The majority in power and value were prepared for self - govern- ment . A Section would ... America has done in four years a work of giants and of ages . Rather , perhaps , all nations and all time had prepared ...
... nations as well as Individuals can verily reign , and whether the interests and the rights of " the All " are com- patible with a " balanced " and orderly Government . The result of the American struggle has not con- founded but ...