Word: frontierisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Expelled from Spain by the military last summer, Cardinal Segura watched from a French monastery near the Spanish frontier last week while Madrid legislators passed a bill strongly opposed by His Eminence. This law, which the Spanish National Assembly passed 160 to 121, granted suffrage at last to Spanish females aged 23 or more...
Adams calls the frontier the U. S. safety-valve, admires the pioneers, but this side idolatry. Adams tells soberly of one Kentucky camp-meeting in 1801 attended by more than 25,000, preached at for a week by 17 preachers, graced at one moment by 3,000 prostrate swooners, 500 "jerkers" and "barkers."' "Two of the strongest influences in our life, religion and the frontier, made in our formative periods for a limited and intolerant spiritual life. . . . Because the frontiersmen had developed the right combination of qualities to conquer the wilderness, they began to believe quite naturally that they...
...lose sight of the real end for which an in crease in population may be desired. . . . The later odd aversion, in a nation wholly made up of immigrants of one generation or another, toward any of our citizens who expatriate themselves for a while, springs straight from this frontier prejudice. He who went abroad became hated both as a lost unit in a population which must be made ever larger, and also as a critic, albeit even a silent one, who might 'give the place a bad name' and hinder others from coming...
...were expended in conserving and developing the landed civilization they already had. Not Slavery but Sectionalism Adams considers was the real issue of the clash. When the South lost, its civilization was ruined; an American dream had gone forever-but not the American dream. With the passing of the frontier came "one of the really great turning points in our history." Hitherto, when the West had revolted against Eastern domination the West had always won. But "in 1896 [when Bryan ran for President against McKinley] for the first time, a revolt of the frontier failed. Something had gone...
...voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life for all the masses of humble and ordinary folk who made the American nation. It was the voice once more of the democratic frontier, of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Lincoln...