Excerpt from Our Native Land: Or Glances at American Scenery and Places, With Sketches of Life and Adventure The striking features of American scenery, society, industry, and social life have more and more stamped themselves on the interest of the world during the last half century. For many years this curiosity on the part of intelligent Europeans was retarded by a reluctance to accept the phases of civilization in the New World at their full worth. Discussion of the great empire which had grown up on the West ern ...
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Excerpt from Our Native Land: Or Glances at American Scenery and Places, With Sketches of Life and Adventure The striking features of American scenery, society, industry, and social life have more and more stamped themselves on the interest of the world during the last half century. For many years this curiosity on the part of intelligent Europeans was retarded by a reluctance to accept the phases of civilization in the New World at their full worth. Discussion of the great empire which had grown up on the West ern Continent was pointed with a sneer at what was rude and crass in our social forms and the ferment of a political life, the bottom impulse of which was at odds with those that vitalized methods, habits, and beliefs in Europe. Since our late civil war, foreign opinion has shaped itself into a new and more serious attitude. The great influx of travel has crowded every nook and corner of our country with keen and competent observers, whose reports have been for the most part fair and just in intention, and comprehensive in treatment. The feeble snarl has been lost in big notes of amazement and pleasure at the wonders scattered profusely by the hand of Nature, and the no lesser marvels wrought by the energy of man. The possession of a standard of comparison, too, has had its use in giving foreign books on America something of the vivid and picturesque not easily attainable otherwise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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