This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... such measure of success that one is proud to feel that this has been done in our own time, in one's own country, by men of one's own race--the race that peoples our seaboard, fills our manufacturing towns, tills our great farms, and stretchingwestward extracts precious metals here and cultivates orange-groves ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... such measure of success that one is proud to feel that this has been done in our own time, in one's own country, by men of one's own race--the race that peoples our seaboard, fills our manufacturing towns, tills our great farms, and stretchingwestward extracts precious metals here and cultivates orange-groves and vineyards there; the race which is daily urged, on the "whaleback" steamer from the city to the Fair, to purchase its chewing-gum before the boat starts, as none is sold after leaving the pier; the race that is so cosmopolitan, so made up from strange and opposing elements, and is withal so homogeneous, so American--and proud, above all, to feel that this curious people have had, at the crucial moment, the good sense to be inconsistent, to make haste slowly, to defer to the few, to make their Exposition the most beautiful before setting to work to make it, as things needs must be here, the biggest in all creation. AT NIGHT ON THE MIDWAY IM.USANCE. To be of this race and a follower of the arts; to have noted for years the growth of public desire for art and the frequent lapses to indifference on its part; to have seen that our artists as they grow in strength and numbers claimed the right to do something larger and finer and better than the private house, the portrait statue, or the genre picture; and then to come here, where for the first time they have found opportunity, and where the alliance of architecture, sculpture, and painting has produced its first work, to find that first work surprisingly good, is to feel proud not alone for the valiant craftsmen who have produced this result, but for the country at large which has stood behind them, and above all for the solid men of the city of Chicago who have planned the work so...
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