Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . heycommend transatlantic institutions orachievements, it is, according to , with that pleasant Europeanair of self-compliment in condescendingto be pleased by American merit whichwe find so conciliating. •? Xow that the United States havereached their full majority, it i- timethat Englan
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . heycommend transatlantic institutions orachievements, it is, according to , with that pleasant Europeanair of self-compliment in condescendingto be pleased by American merit whichwe find so conciliating. •? Xow that the United States havereached their full majority, it i- timethat England should cease to assumethe attitude of guardian, and time thatthey should be on the alert to re-eatthe assumption. Foremost among themore attractive features of transatlan-tic [American] literature is its JThe authority which is the guide ofold nations constantly threaten,come tyrannical: they their titions like a chain: and. in canonizationof laws of taste, the creatdepressed. Even in England we w under fixed conditions; with tl. re are all bound t cast our ideas into similar moulds, and the name thinker has grown to a term of reproach. Bunyans Pilgrimthe last English book written without a thought of being reviewed. Iis a gain in the habit of self-restraii. I by this state of wiiittiki: 218 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY but there is a loss in the consequent lack of spontaneity; and we may learnsomething from a literature that is ever ready for adventures. In Americathe love of uniformity gives place to impetuous impulses; the most extremesentiments are made audible, the most noxious have their day and cease tobe; and the truth being left to vindicate itself, the overthrow of error,though more gradual, may at last prove more complete. A New Englandpoet can write with confidence of his country as the land Where no one suffers loss or bleedsFor thoughts that men calls heresies. Another feature of American literature is comprehensiveness. What ithas lo
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