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Title: The New world compared with the Old: a description of the American government, institutions, and enterprises, and of those of our great rivals at the present time, particularly England and France
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn., S.M. Betts & Company New York, J.D. Dennison (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mpire on the Bosphorus, and Russia has voluntarily subscribed to the Monroe doctrine by parting with her only possession on the American continent. It seems to be without the range of probabilities that our two empires can collide ; the superstition in the American mind that we are the gigantic twins of Christendom,starting from Europe in opposite directions to mould the destinies,the one of the West the other of the East, has well-nigh reached the American heart, and when we read of our mutual fleets in the Dardanelles manning the yards and mingling hurrahs and u hourras, we feel a thrill akin to that of a lover discovering reciprocal passion in his sweetheart. The differences between the American and the Russian States are not so profitable subjects for investigation as their resemblances.Each has a work to do, and its temperament and system are adapted to its separate mission. The tribes which accept civilization at the point of the Russians sword would be irreverent scholars of the 601
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4 5 HARBORS AND FORTRESSES. 1—Ehrenbreitstein. 2—Gibraltar. 3—The Narrows. 4—Fortress Monroe 5—Citadel, Quebec. THE NEW WEST AND THE NEW EAST. 605 American ballot. Russia must civilize the nations in bulk; we initiate them into Republicanism, man by man. And who can say that the condition of the Asiatic is not improved by the prowess of Russia as much as the European by the institutions of America? These are some of the resemblances between the United States and Europe in which Russia takes a prominent place : — The same geographical and ethnological circumstances mark both.The Atlantic coasts are jagged and broken, and they were first civilized by various races, so that there had nearly been as many distinct nations in Florida, Louisiana, Canada, Virginia,and New York, as in Spain, France, England, and Holland. The interiors of the two continents are broad, compact, of vast agricultural resources, similarly marked by plains, prairies, steppes, and irrigated by an immense river sy

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