. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . INTRODUCTION—THE FEDERAL NAVYAND THE BLOCKADE By F. E. Chadwick Rear-Admiral, United States Navy THE American Civil War marks one of the great socialreconstructions which are ever taking place as we advancefrom jilane to plane of mentality. The American and theFrench revolutions; the overthrow of European feudalism byNapoleon, who was but the special instrument of a great move-ment, are among the special reconstructions more immediatelypreceding tliat of 1861, but all had, in a way, a common im-pulse—the impulse which comes from ha
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . INTRODUCTION—THE FEDERAL NAVYAND THE BLOCKADE By F. E. Chadwick Rear-Admiral, United States Navy THE American Civil War marks one of the great socialreconstructions which are ever taking place as we advancefrom jilane to plane of mentality. The American and theFrench revolutions; the overthrow of European feudalism byNapoleon, who was but the special instrument of a great move-ment, are among the special reconstructions more immediatelypreceding tliat of 1861, but all had, in a way, a common im-pulse—the impulse which comes from having arrived at a newmental outlook. Such revolutions may be bloodless if mental developmentis equal to meeting the emergency, as it was in the formationof the American Constitution, in 1787. They are, however,far more apt to be in blood, as w^as that of 1861, Avhich wasbrought about by the immense and rapid development, in thelast century, of mechanism, the press, and the mobility of popu-lations. We had to step to a new mental, moral, and psj^chicplane
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