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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry 1567
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry 1567
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): entry 1567
Declaration of Independence in the light of modern criticism, the.
As a student, critic, and compiler of American history Prof. Moses Coit Tyler holds an established position among the most eminent scholars.
In 1867 he was appointed to the chair of English Literature at the University of Michigan, which he occupied until 1881, when he was called to the University of Cornell as Professor of American History.
On the subject of criticisms on the Declaration of Independence he writes:
It can hardly be doubted that some hinderance to the right estimate of the Declaration of Independence is occasioned by either of two opposite conditions of mind, both of which are often to be met with among us: on the one hand, a condition of hereditary, uncritical awe and worship of the American Revolution, and of that state paper as its absolutely perfect and glorious expression; on the other hand, a later condition of cultivated distrust of the Declaration as a piece of writing lifted up into
Jefferson City (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry 1567
United States (United States) (search for this): entry 1567
Chatham (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry 1567
London (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry 1567
Grafton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry 1567
Mecklenburg (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry 1567
Rockingham, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry 1567