Books in the John Harvard Library (Hardcover) series

No detailed description available for "Democracy and Social Ethics".

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Francis Wayland's "The Elements of Moral Science," first published in 1835, was one of the most widely used and influential American textbooks of the nineteenth century. Direct and simple in its presentation, the book was more a didactic manual than a philosophic discussion of ethical problems. This text reproduces the 1837 revision of "The Elements of Moral Science."

No detailed description available for "The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson".

No detailed description available for "A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity".

No detailed description available for "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley".

No detailed description available for "The Gates Ajar".

No detailed description available for "The Process of Government".

No detailed description available for "The Duke of Stockbridge".

No detailed description available for "The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher, Volume I".

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: detached stand-point. It would be idle to pretend that he interpreted New England types with the intimate appreciation of Hawthorne. On the other hand, his detachment being more complete, his portrayal of them often gives them the relief which can only be brought out by the colorless white light of cold impartiality. Occasionally, without doubt, he satirizes rather than depicts them?though more rarely than his heavy touch leads the reader to imagine. But from Wing-and-Wing to Satanstoe the New England contingent of his company of characters is portrayed with a searching and self-justifying veracity, at least as to its essential features; and, as was his habit, discriminatingly portrayed. Ithuel Bolt is certainly one of the notable characters of fiction, and yet he could no more have been born and developed outside of New England than Leatherstocking could have .hailed from Massachusetts. If the Rev. Meek Wolfe in The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish is a caricature, he is fully offset by the fine portrait of the Puritan head of the household. It is difficult now to recall the New England of Cooper's day. Never, perhaps, in the world's history was so much and so wide-spread mental activity so intimately associated with such extreme provinciality. For a miniature portrait of it consult the first pages of Lowell's essay on Thoreau. At present we need to have the eminence of the section recalled to us. Professor Barrett Wendell's engaging Literary History, in which he not only limits American literature ofmuch value to New England, but even tucks it into the confines of Harvard College, is an interesting reminder of days that seem curiously distant. Between 1825 and 1850, at all events, New England, always the apex, had become also the incubus of our civilization, and called loudly fo...

No detailed description available for "Etchings of a Whaling Cruise".

No detailed description available for "The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays".

No detailed description available for "New Travels in the United States of the America, 1788".

No detailed description available for "A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger, Printer of the New York Weekly Journal".

No detailed description available for "Hospital Sketches".

No detailed description available for "Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865, Volume I".

No detailed description available for "Essay on Classification".

No detailed description available for "The Story of a Country Town".

No detailed description available for "Traps for the Young".

No detailed description available for "A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, 1789".

No detailed description available for "Views of Society and Manners in America".

No detailed description available for "A Woman Rice Planter".

No detailed description available for "A Novelist in the Making".

The Promise of American Life was first published in 1909. It had an immediate and extensive influence on what social historians call the Progressive Era. At the dawn of the New Deal Era, Felix Frankfurter wrote that Croly's book became "a reservoir for all political writings after its publication. Roosevelt's New Nationalism was countered by Wilson's New Freedom, but both derived from Croly."While this may have been hyperbole, it is also a reflection of the impact The Promise made on intellectuals coming of age in the days of doubt and hope just before the Fust World War. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., calls this book "a substantive and sensitive essay on the American political experience, worth examination not just for historical reasons but on its continuing merits as a diagnosis of the American condition."Croly himself summarizes the work thus: "From the beginning the land of democracy has been figured as the land of promise. The American's loyalty to the national tradition rather affirms than denies the imaginative projection of a better future." Croly's book can be viewed as both an affirmation and critique of how the idea of progress works its way out in American life. And reading it at the end of the century only reaffirms one's sense of appreciation of the American tradition as a whole.The technology and science may be different, but the themes covered by Croly show an astonishing continuity of value issues: American Democracy and National Principles, Reform and Reaction; Federalists and Republicans, Nationalism and Internationalism; and the Individual and the National Purpose. All of these themes are central to Croly and remain so to this day. The new, forty-page introduction by Scott R. Bowman, brings the story of The Promise up to date. But it may be studied with a critical eye to the social maladies confronting Americans as a new century approaches.

No detailed description available for "The Independent Reflector".

No detailed description available for "The History of the Province of New-York, Volume 2: A Continuation, 1732-1762".

No detailed description available for "The History of the Province of New-York, Volume 1: From the First Discovery to the Year 1732".

No detailed description available for "The Crater".

No detailed description available for "The Memoirs of an American Citizen".