Category: Travel Writing
Society in America, Volume 2 (of 2)
"Science and Art urge on the useful toil; New mould a climate, and create the soil. On yielding Nature urge their new demands, And ask not gifts, but tribute, at her hands."
Chapters
1. CHAPTER III.2. CHAPTER IV.3. CHAPTER V.4. CHAPTER I.5. CHAPTER II.6. CHAPTER III.7. CHAPTER II.
"Science and Art urge on the useful toil; New mould a climate, and create the soil. On yielding Nature urge their new demands, And ask not gifts, but tribute, at her hands."
8. CHAPTER III."The crude treasures, perpetually exposed before our eyes, contain within them other and more valuable principles. All these, likewise, in their numberless combinations, which a...
9. CHAPTER IV."He hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies: I understand moreover upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England: and other ventures he hath."
10. CHAPTER V."And yet of your strength there is and can be no clear feeling, save by what you have prospered in, by what you have done. Between vague, wavering capability, and fixed, indubit...
11. PART III."This country, which has given to the world the example of physical liberty, owes to it that of moral emancipation also; for as yet it is but nominal with us. The inquisition of...
12. CHAPTER I."Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed his everlasting patent of nobility; and these it is which make the bright, 'the...
13. CHAPTER II."The vale best discovereth the hill. There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals, which was wont to be magnified. That that is, is between superior...
14. CHAPTER III.Nothing less than an entire work would be required for the discussion of the subject of education in any country. I can only indicate here two or three peculiarities which strik...
15. CHAPTER IV."One of the universal sentiments which Christianity has deeply imbedded in the human heart is that of the _natural equality of men_.... It has produced the spectacle, which I be...
16. CHAPTER V."A country which has no national literature, or a literature too insignificant to force its way abroad, must always be, to its neighbours, at least in every important spiritual...
17. CHAPTER I.Religion is the highest fact in the Rights of Man from its being the most exclusively private and individual, while it is also a universal, concern, of any in which man is inter...
18. CHAPTER I."And therefore the doctrine of the one (Christ) was never afraid of universities, or endeavoured the banishment of learning like the other (Mahomet.) And though Galen doth somet...
19. CHAPTER II."Hands full of hearty labours: pains that pay And prize themselves--do much that more they may. No cruel guard of diligent cares, that keep Crowned woes awake, as things too wis...
20. CHAPTER III."What will they then But force the spirit of grace itself, and bind His consort Liberty? what but unbuild His living temples, built by faith to stand, Their own faith, not anoth...