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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 12 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XXIV. a half-century of American literature (1857-1907） (search)
or all that spontaneous, joyous Greek waywardness of fancy, for the temperature of passion and the subtler thrill of ideality, you might as well look to a wrought-iron derrick. Whatever charges can be brought against the American people, no one has yet attributed to them any want of self-confidence or self-esteem; and though this trait may be sometimes unattractive, the philosophers agree that it is the only path to greatness. The only nations which ever come to be called historic, says Tolstoi in his Anna Karenina, are those which recognize the importance and worth of their own institutions. Emerson, putting the thing more tersely, as is his wont, says that no man can do anything well who does not think that what he does is the centre of the visible universe. The history of the American republic was really the most interesting in the world, from the outset, were it only from the mere fact that however small its scale, it yet showed a self-governing people in a condition never b