This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II THE PRESENT SITUATION An old civilization came to its breaking point in i9i4, and to its complete breakdown in i9i8. That old civilization is gone in all save some indefinite fragments, and "not all the king's horses or all the king's men" can ever put it together again in the old ways. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II THE PRESENT SITUATION An old civilization came to its breaking point in i9i4, and to its complete breakdown in i9i8. That old civilization is gone in all save some indefinite fragments, and "not all the king's horses or all the king's men" can ever put it together again in the old ways. This does not mean, however, that America is doomed to failure. Americans made American institutions in the beginning, and at need they can make others. It does mean that in common with the sordid and shiftless institutions of the world, American institutions failed to provide adequately for the inner life. In the face of danger men and women alike showed in this war period as high courage and moral enthusiasm as in any generation of the past. But moral courage is a function of the biological stock, rather than of acquired character. Therefore, the sordid and shiftless nature of our civilization before the war had not really touched the quality of the stock. The surprise that the whole world expressed when American men proved as courageous as men of other nations shows clearly that there was a general feeling that American institutions had deteriorated since the brave days of old, and that along with them, American character had suffered some corresponding disintegration. But the war seems to have proved our native mettle, and therefore to have proved that the glory of America is more in her stock than in her institutions. In the realm of idealism our showing must be considered rather equivocal. We proved ourselves equal to the call to high endeavor as against a foreign menace, but we have not shown ourselves equally able to meet the insidious foes within our own community life. We have been victimized by profiteers, browbeaten by patrioteers, ...
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