Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecture will be divided into two parts, the topics being, "The Individual and Society" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations." The phrase, "Society of Nations" does not refer to the League of Nations, but in a more general sense to the great world mass comprising all nations and races...
...exploits of such men as Harriman, Hill and others in spreading the network of steel which today so closely binds the various parts of the nation together are the tales of true pioneers. These men followed a dream and there are others today and have been in the intermittent time who have trudged steadily along in the same pursuit. But the romance has not been the only phase, and "le revers de la medaille" is equally enthralling. Legislation aplenty has been let loose by the advent and enormous growth of the railroads, by no means least among which stands...
...happening, it is my opinion that the United States should recognize the Russian Soviet. All of the great countries of the world except the United States have accepted the Soviet, all have recognized it to be legal and effective and I see no reason why we, a nation far distant from Russia, have any reason not to accept it. On the other hand I think there are several reasons why we should recognize the Russian Soviet. In the first place, Russia is a great potential market for United States goods. Thus commercially it would benefit us considerably to recognize Russia...
...spectacle of material prosperity and outward greatness which the America of today presents, can be directly attributed to the single mindedness with which we as a nation have embraced industrial success as the standard of achievement. But the hollowness of a philosophy of life, which leads to nothing more substantial than mere progress, is already being felt with a poignancy, which even the Nirvana of Coolidgism has failed to allay. And in tracing the fading of the golden day into the gilded dusk, Lewis Mumford is voicing a discontent with the present idols, to which the pens of such widely...
...this were the whole story, the Golden Day could not have existed at all. But the new nation had its hour of glory. It occurred in that brief moment, when there was a nice balance between farm and factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned...