This Sacred Trust: American Nationality 1778-1898Oxford University Press, 1971 M01 2 - 392 páginas Nagel's classic work deals with nineteenth-century America's coming awareness as a nation and its agonizing struggle to turn itself into a model republic. He perceptively explores the growth of American nationalism in its political, social, religious, economic, and literary implications. The resulting book is a vivid portrait of how America viewed itself, what concerned it deeply, and ultimately, of those forces in society that led to a new spirit of militant nationalism. |
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Adams Address advocates affirmations Amer Ameri America's Trust American fulfillment American nationality American thought Anglo-Saxon Beecher Boston called Carl Schurz centennial century Charles Charles Sumner citizenry citizens Civil Clay Cleveland comfort conceded Cong corruption Curtis Daniel Webster destiny divine doctrine duty Emerson endeavor evil faith Fathers Founders Francis Lieber freedom future glory God's Henry Henry Ward Beecher hereafter cited hope human nature ican insisted inspired Jackson James James Russell Lowell Jefferson John John Adams journal July liberty Lincoln Lowell Magazine mammon man's Manifest Destiny meant ment moral national character national fulfillment national purpose needed Noah Webster North American Review Oration Delivered Oration Pronounced outlook past patriotism Phi Beta Kappa political preservation President principles progress religion renewed Republic Republic's republican responsibility Schurz seemed selfishness sentiment Sess spirit spoke spokesmen Stewards stewardship talk tion tional triumph Union Vineyard virtue Washington Webster Whig William York
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Página 4 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 4 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. — Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue ? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature.
Página 4 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 5 - I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude...
Página 4 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.