The American Spirit in Literature: a chronicle of great interpreters by Bliss Perry CHAPTER I. THE PIONEERS The United States of America has been from the beginning in a perpetual change. The physical and mental restlessness of the American and the temporary nature of many of his arrangements are largely due to the experimental character of the exploration and development of this continent. The new energies released by the settlement of the colonies were indeed guided by stern determination, wise forethought, and inventive ...
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The American Spirit in Literature: a chronicle of great interpreters by Bliss Perry CHAPTER I. THE PIONEERS The United States of America has been from the beginning in a perpetual change. The physical and mental restlessness of the American and the temporary nature of many of his arrangements are largely due to the experimental character of the exploration and development of this continent. The new energies released by the settlement of the colonies were indeed guided by stern determination, wise forethought, and inventive skill; but no one has ever really known the outcome of the experiment. It is a story of faith, of Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. An Alexander Hamilton may urge with passionate force the adoption of the Constitution, without any firm conviction as to its permanence. The most clear-sighted American of the Civil War period recognized this element of uncertainty in our American adventure when he declared: "We are now testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." More than fifty years have passed since that war rearmed the binding force of the Constitution and apparently sealed the perpetuity of the Union. Yet the gigantic economic and social changes now in progress are serving to show that the United States has its full share of the anxieties which beset all human institutions in this daily altering world. "We are but strangers in an inn, but passengers in a ship," said Roger Williams. This sense of the transiency of human effort, the perishable nature of human institutions, was quick in the consciousness of the gentleman adventurers and sober Puritan citizens who emigrated from England to the New World. It had been a familiar note in the poetry of that Elizabethan period which had followed with such breathless interest the exploration of America. It was a conception which could be shared alike by a saint like John Cotton or a soldier of fortune like John Smith. Men are tent-dwellers. Today they settle here, and tomorrow they have struck camp and are gone. We are strangers and sojourners, as all our fathers were. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience
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Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. ix, 281 pp. Very light rubbing to the corners of the covers. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. "Roosevelt Edition."
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Fine in VG jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover in series-uniform bright blue (not navy) cloth with elaborate gilt, black and white design, in grey card jacket with black design matching book; small 8vo. Chronicles of America, v.34 of 50. x + 281pp. Index, bibliographical note. Tissue-protected frontis and plates. Fine/VG. Book has mild toning to endpapers. Book is otherwise as new: tight and sharp with especially bright cloth and gilt. The scarce jacket has narrow hole to lower mid spine away from titles and figues, internally tape-reinforced; 1" long x 1/8" narrow chip mid lower rear edge. Light toning along spine with no effect on titles or figures; small label shadow lower rear panel; light abrasion along upper spine end; touches of darkening to upper front corner away from titles and figure. Central figures and titles clear and sharp. In Brodart.
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