American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History

American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History
Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in May 1880

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American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by John Fiske

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1880

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American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History
Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in May 1880

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re leisurely way, with the purpose of increasing his knowledge of history and politics, would find it well to proceed somewhat differently. He would find himself richly repaid for a sojourn in some insignificant place the very name of which is unknown beyond sea,--just as Mr. Mackenzie Wallace--whose book on Russia is a model of what such books should be--got so much invaluable experience from his months of voluntary exile at Ivánofka in the province of Novgorod. Out of the innumerable places which one might visit in America, there are none which would better reward such careful observation, or which are more full of interest for the comparative historian, than the rural towns and mountain villages of New England; that part of English America which is oldest in civilization (though not in actual date of settlement), and which, while most completely English in blood and in traditions, is at the same time most completely American in so far as it has most distinctly illustrated and most successfully represented

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