The two frontiers

The study of history, which in the nineteenth century became no longer the province of a few specialists, but an almost universal pursuit carried on in hundreds of schools, and...

The influence of geographical situation and of climate on human culture is a subject so vast and profound that only the combined industry and genius of a Humboldt or an Elie Rec...

The English-speaking American colonies developed in comparative peace and tranquillity, except for Indian wars on the frontier, internal religious quarrels, and difficulties wit...

Up to a short time before America was discovered, and Russia emerged on the stage of the world’s affairs under Ivan the Great, Europe had been a social, moral, and spiritual uni...

_“There is an organic logic, an instinctive and dream-sure logic of all existence, as opposed to the logic of the inorganic, the logic of understanding and of things understood-...

Every race and every nation that has ever existed has achieved its destiny only by selecting out of the many paths open to it, one path peculiar to itself and following that, ac...

Nothing is more illuminating of the contrasted power-land psychology prevailing in Russia and America than the attitude taken up by both nations in regard to the difficult and i...

There is a certain obvious parallel between religion in North America and religion in Russia, because both countries are, and have been, for centuries, fundamentally Christian....

The difference in attitude which the Russians and the Americans have displayed in regard to faith and moral conduct--a difference which rests, as we have shown, on a power-prope...

_“Russia began by asking Europe for the finished products of western civilisation, to meet the requirements of her state service. It was not in this offhand way that Europe had...

Apart from the influence of politics, the greatest spiritual influence that Russia and America have had on the world for a century past has been manifested through their respect...

There comes a moment in the history of every people when, by some almost imperceptible inner growth of cultural self-consciousness, a great, new, and original art is born among...

In the preceding chapter it was necessary, in speaking of Gogol, to make some passing reference to Moscow Slavophilism. It was also hardly possible to speak of Hawthorne without...

The Civil War in America and Alexander Second’s freeing of the serfs in Russia, which took place at the same time, were very different in their effect upon the two countries. Th...

The last chapter of our study of the two literatures--Russian and American--has, in its study of four great figures, brought the story to a climax. Nothing is more characteristi...

The history of the nineteenth century is the history of the decline and fall of Europe. The logical madness of Napoleon’s attempt to transform by the power of the sword and the...

At the close of the nineteenth century, the American people were opportunistic, optimistic, and prosperous; the Russian people were gradually sinking back from the status of a w...

Fifteen years since the outbreak, and eleven years since the cessation of European hostilities have passed away; but the question is not yet fully settled of responsibility for...

For the past ten years the situation of Europe has been both grotesque and tragic. Had she made her exit from the stage of world-politics with the gesture of tragic dignity that...