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Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930

"The Promise of American Life"

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work of Abolitionists in the name of, 80-81;
Abolitionists' perverted conception of, 80-81, 86;
Lincoln an example of the kind of human excellence to be fashioned by,
89;
Lincoln's realization of his ideal of a, 94;
the labor union and the tradition of, 126 ff.;
the American, and the social problem, 138-140;
the ordinary conception of, as a matter of popular government, 176-180;
the true meaning of, 176 ff.;
and discrimination, 185-193;
the real definition of, 207 ff.;
a superior form of political organization in so far as liberty and
equality make for human brotherhood, 207-208;
principles of nationality and, in England, 230 ff.;
and nationality in France, 239 ff.;
principles of, and of nationality in America, 267 ff.;
and peace, 308 ff.
Democracy, Jacksonian (or Western), 52 ff.;
suspected by Hamilton, appreciated by Jefferson, 52-53;
disapproves Jefferson's policy of peaceful warfare, 53;
forces Madison into second war with England, 53-54;
the first genuinely national body of Americans, 54-55;
characteristics of, 55-56;
reasons for hostility of, to office-holding clique and the National
Bank, 57;
causes leading to introduction of spoils system by, 57, 59-60;
error of views of, 60-61;
the first body of Americans genuinely democratic in feeling, 61-62;
the true point of view in studying the, 63-65;
reason for triumph of, over Whigs, 69-70;
attitude of, toward slavery, 73-74, 84;
in 1850 Stephen A.


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