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He is a great democrat, but, first and last and over all, he is a great man, a great nature, and deep world-currents course through him. He is distinctively an American poet, but his Americanism is only the door through which he enters upon the universal. Call his work poetry or prose, or what you will: that it is an inspired utterance of some sort, any competent person ought to be able to see.
Just as economic and political Americanism has been broad enough and vital enough to make a place in the American social economy for the hordes of European immigrants with their many diverse national characteristics, so the intellectual basis of Americanism must be broad enough to include and vigorous enough to assimilate the special ideals and means of discipline necessary to every kind of intellectual or moral excellence.
For myself I never feel quite so disposed to brag of my Americanism as when I visit some of our New York schools.
In this, he wanted the young people to be trained in the principles of true Americanism. He wanted the intelligence of the country to guide its politics.
The test of such a policy is the degree of unselfishness with which it is carried out. The loyalty of the Latin-American states to the principles of Pan Americanism was put to a severe test when the United States entered the Great War.
We are not finding fault with this insularity as a feature of national character, on the contrary, we rather like it, for the first business of an Englishman is to be an Englishman, and we wish that Americanism were as common among Americans, but, since no man can see more than is in his own mind, it is a somewhat dangerous quality in a traveller.
Their Americanization consists of lip-service; the real spirit, the only factor which counts in the successful teaching of any doctrine, is absolutely missing. We certainly cannot teach anything approaching a true Americanism until we ourselves feel and believe and practise in our own lives what we are teaching to others.
If there had not been the patriotic urge to assert our essential Americanism more strongly than ever, there still would have been a reaction against all the pledging and the handshaking, the pother about blood and water, the purple patches in every newspaper asserting Anglo-Saxonism against the world.
I told her I thought the people about New Brunswick and Boston were especially delightful. "After this," I added, "you will, perhaps, think me impertinent if I say they seem to me so English! but after all, you came from us, and it only shows you have kept the stock pure, while we have in many cases adopted a spurious Americanism in our ways and speech." Since I wrote this, Mrs.
What's to be done, Miss Dexter, now, and with you, Mr. Joseph? Of course, I'll take you straight to the Inn as for Miss Dexter " "I will get out at once," said the unhappy woman. "You are sure you can take him to the Inn all right and and lift that is without " "Oh, I guess so," said the farmer, grimly relapsing into an Americanism that was just beginning to leaven the whole country.
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