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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860- Scientific American, inc
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American compiling dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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id not resultin a new form of national genius. When, asin the case of America, the transplantation of a race brought men and women into a new at-mosphere beneath a new sky, this result was necessarily more apparent. He who lands from Europe on our shores perceives a difference in the sky above his head, the height seems greater,the zenith father off, the horizon wall steeper.With this result on the one side, and the vastand constant mixture of races, on the other,there must inevitably be a change. No portion of our immigrant body desires to retain its national language; all races wish their children to learn the English language as soon as possible, yet no imported race wishes its children to take the British race, as such, for models. Our new-comers unconsciously say with that keen thinker, David Wasson, The Englishman is undoubtedly a wholesome figure to the mentaleye; but will not 20.000,000 copies of him do,for the present? The Englishmans strongpoint is his vigorous insularity; that of the
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1. Washington Irving 2. Francis Parkman 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. William H. Prescott 5. Fenimore Cooper. UNITED STATES—INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does that never advances. The Americans disposition isto step forward even at the risk of a fall.Washington Irving, who, as we have seen, seemed at first to an acute French observera mere reproduction of Pope and Addison, wrote to John Lothrop Motley two years before his own death, You are properly sensible of the high calling of the American press — that rising tribunal before which the whole world is to be summoned, its history to be revised and rewritten, and the judgment of past ages to be can-celled or confirmed. For one who can look back 60 years to a time when the best literary period-ical in America was called The Albion,* it is difficult to realize how the intellectual conditions of the two nations are changed. In many things which require thorough workmanship,England still remains the mor

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