. The journal of American history. EARLY AMERICAN ARCH ] TECTURE—Types of Ancestral Homesteads in New England Anttqu? iFttrnttur? in Ammra Extant £>pmuuma of ibr iffurttttttrr of % iFtratAtttfriratt Ifomra £• lExljtbtta of lEarltj Sratgna §>till©rraaurrb tn tljr Posapaaton of %tr Scarfttbanta. &~ Property of Governor William Pitkin, Governor of Connecticut in 1766-1769—Mahogany table and chair withcombination of Anglo-Dutch legs and frame-work that came into fashion in England toward the middleof the Eighteenth Century—Now in possession of Miss Marion P. Whitney of New Haven, Connecticut
. The journal of American history. EARLY AMERICAN ARCH ] TECTURE—Types of Ancestral Homesteads in New England Anttqu? iFttrnttur? in Ammra Extant £>pmuuma of ibr iffurttttttrr of % iFtratAtttfriratt Ifomra £• lExljtbtta of lEarltj Sratgna §>till©rraaurrb tn tljr Posapaaton of %tr Scarfttbanta. &~ Property of Governor William Pitkin, Governor of Connecticut in 1766-1769—Mahogany table and chair withcombination of Anglo-Dutch legs and frame-work that came into fashion in England toward the middleof the Eighteenth Century—Now in possession of Miss Marion P. Whitney of New Haven, Connecticut M^k MERICANS are futurists rather than antiquarians. The Ameri-ySr& can spirit is absorbed in the morrow, and is inclined to forget yT ^ the yesterday. This tendency is characteristic of ardor and AEH& ambition, whether it be in man or nations of men, especially ^^^ ^L in the newness of life. Youth looks only ahead ; Age looks^^W ? back—and then goes forward. Maturity must have a founda-tion ; matured thought is based on experience, the organiza-tion of gone years. All material greatness is structural and its permanencydepends wholly upon its foundation. The substance of all life is based uponthis truth. The character of the nation is moulded in the home, and thehome is
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