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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Epilogue (search)
tion for general education. In 1830, we found ourselves isolated and it took us thirty years of work to break down the barriers between ourselves and the modern world. The intellect and passion of the country was given up during this time to a terrible conflict between prophetic morality on the one hand and the unprofitable sophistries of law, politics and government on the other. Our attitude towards Europe was unintelligent; our experience in ideas (other than prophetic ethics and Constitutional Law) was nil. The consequence was that the American fell tremendously behind the European in general cultivation. Now the period after our return to social life — the period, namely, between 1865 and the present time — coincides with the rise of modern commerce, so that we no sooner got free from one enemy to the soul than we were fastened upon by another-and that other the half-brother and blood relation of the first. I will not try to analyze America nor define her relation to Europ