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Kate Stephens. American Thumb-prints: Mettle of Our Men and Women
American Thumb-prints: Mettle of Our Men and Women
Table of Contents
PURITANS OF THE WEST
PURITANS OF THE WEST
THE UNIVERSITY OF HESPERUS
THE UNIVERSITY OF HESPERUS
TWO NEIGHBORS OF ST. LOUIS
TWO NEIGHBORS OF ST. LOUIS
THE NEW ENGLAND WOMAN
THE NEW ENGLAND WOMAN
A NEW ENGLAND ABODE OF THE BLESSED
A NEW ENGLAND ABODE OF THE BLESSED
UP-TO-DATE MISOGYNY
UP-TO-DATE MISOGYNY
“THE GULLET SCIENCE” A LOOK BACK AND AN ECONOMIC FORECAST
“THE GULLET SCIENCE” A LOOK BACK AND AN ECONOMIC FORECAST
PLAGIARIZING HUMORS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
PLAGIARIZING HUMORS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Kate Stephens
Published by Good Press, 2019
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He values openly what the world in its heart knows is best, and like all idealists foreruns his time. The legend is always about him of how the men and women of the early fifties hitched their wagon to a star—and the stars in his infinity above are divinely luminous and clear. His meliorism—which would lead his fellows and then the whole world aright—is nothing if not magnificent.
But although he grubs up the wild rose and morning-glory, ploughing his mellow soil deep for settings of peach and grape, and supplants the beauty of the purple iris and prairie verbena with the practicalities of corn and wheat, he has yet to learn the moral effect of time and aggregation—that a moon’s cycle is not a millennium, a June wind fragrant with the honey of his white clover not all of his fair climate, and that a political colossus cannot stand when it has no more substantial feet than the yellow clay which washes and swirls in the river that waters his great State. In reality his excess of faith hinders the way to conditions his idealism has ever been seeking.
