Author : Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364751145
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (511 download)
Book Synopsis The History of the United States From 1492 to 1917, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by : Julian Hawthorne
Download or read book The History of the United States From 1492 to 1917, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Julian Hawthorne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the United States From 1492 to 1917, Vol. 1 But the conflict thus provoked was necessary to the evo lation which Providence was preparing. The soul grows strong through hardship; truth conquers by struggling against opposition. It is by resistance, at first instinctive, against restraint that the infant attains self-consciousness. The first settlers who came across the ocean were animated solely by the desire to escape from oppression in their native land; they had as yet no purpose to set up an independent empire. But, as the breath of the forest and the prairie entered into their lungs, and the untrarnmeled spaciousness of the Virgin continent unshackled their minds, they began to resent, though at first timidly, the arrogant pretension to rule them across the waves. Their environment gave them courage, made them hardy and self-dependent, enlight ened their intelligence, weaned them from vain traditions, revealed to them the truth that man's birthright is liberty. And gradually, as the reins of tyranny were drawn tighter, these pioneers of the New Day were wrought up to the pitch of throwing off all allegiance, and setting their lives upon the cast The idea of political freedom is commonplace now; but to conceive it for the first time required a mighty effort, and it could have been accomplished nowhere else than in a vast and untrodden land. The Declaration of Independ ence, nearly three centuries after Columbus's discovery of America, showed the hitherto blind and sordid world what America was discovered for. Individual men of genius had surmised it many years before; but their hope of forecast had been deemed but an idle vision until in a moment, as it were, the reality was born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
