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. 1917 Excerpt: ...but which cannot be diverted from their vision of a world of brotherhood and peace. No corrective legislation and no economic argument can be conclusive to those who have thrown themselves into the cause of social revolution, which do not satisfy the idealism of revolution with a saner and more practicable idealism ...
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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. 1917 Excerpt: ...but which cannot be diverted from their vision of a world of brotherhood and peace. No corrective legislation and no economic argument can be conclusive to those who have thrown themselves into the cause of social revolution, which do not satisfy the idealism of revolution with a saner and more practicable idealism wrought out of the existing conditions of industrial life. Considerations like these, though they do not exclude the crudities or cruelties of a commercialized democracy, indicate that the heart of the people is still sound, and that even the marvellous expansion of American commercialism has in it the seeds of a worthier life. Whatever idealism may survive or flourish in the future must be attained, not by retreating from the conditions of American civilization, but by trusting and developing them. Out of this money-making and materialized democracy must emerge the national character. The better America cannot be detached from the real America, like a flower tied to a stick, but must bloom from the same dark soil in which commercial success has taken root; and there are many signs that the plant which has seemed unlovely and even poisonous may, through the very forces which have conspired for its growth, blossom at last into fragrance and beauty. The latest and perhaps the finest expression of this fundamental note in the American character is offered as these words are written. After years of patient and long-suffering neutrality the American people are summoned to abandon their commercial independence and to take their part in a world-war; and in words whose eloquence of phrase is matched by their depth of feeling the representative of American opinion speaks for a united country. "We have," he says, " no selfish ends to serve. ...
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