The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . Mctronolitan IVTuscum oi An, Ncu \ ( *^irfr iir it • rlWaiSii- National Academy (if l)c>igii, New \iirk. HINDRANCES TO DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS. 6l I In those unhappy instances where pestilences such as yellowfever or other plagues have visited and ravaged parts of thiscountry, there have never been found wanting men who wereready to give their personal aid in caring for the afflicted.
The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . Mctronolitan IVTuscum oi An, Ncu \ ( *^irfr iir it • rlWaiSii- National Academy (if l)c>igii, New \iirk. HINDRANCES TO DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS. 6l I In those unhappy instances where pestilences such as yellowfever or other plagues have visited and ravaged parts of thiscountry, there have never been found wanting men who wereready to give their personal aid in caring for the afflicted. Trialsof this nature afford the best possible proof as to the state of mensminds in relation to one another, and the results seem to indicatethat in all important regards the sympathetic motives of our folkhave gained from their experience under our institutions. It isdifficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact, for on it, to agreat extent, depends the maintenance and advancement of oursociety. Although individual activity, which is so characteristic a fea-ture in American life, has served to quicken the sympathetic un-derstandings of the people, the trend of the development whichhas thus been brought about has differed much in
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