The Growth of the American ThoughtTransaction Publishers, 1964 - 939 páginas Hailed as a pioneer achievement upon its original publi-cation and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1944, The Growth of American Thought has won appreciative reviews and earned the highest regard among historians of the national experience. With his elaboration of the complex interrelationships between the growth of American thought and the whole American social milieu, Curti creates not only an intellectual history, but a social history of American thought. |
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The Rise of the Enlightenment | 98 |
The Revolutionary Shift in Emphasis | 123 |
The Expanding Enlightenment | 149 |
The Conservative Reaction | 178 |
The Civil War and Intellectual Life | 443 |
The Nature of the New Nationalism | 468 |
Business and the Life of the Mind | 494 |
The Delimitation of Supernaturalism | 517 |
Impact of Evolutionary Though on Society | 540 |
Scholarship and Popularization of Learning | 564 |
Formulas of Protest and Reform | 588 |
The Conservative Defense | 615 |
Patrician Direction of Thought | 205 |
Nationalism Challenges Cosmopolitanism | 225 |
The West Challenges Patrician Leadership | 250 |
New Currents of Equalitarianism | 285 |
The Advance of Science and Technology | 310 |
The Popularization of Knowledge | 335 |
New Goals for Democracy | 358 |
The Rising Tide of Patriotism and Nationalism | 387 |
Cultural Nationalism in the Old South | 417 |
America Recrosses the Oceans | 641 |
Prosperity Disillusionment Criticism | 667 |
Crisis and New Searches | 697 |
American Assertions in a World of Upheaval | 730 |
Dialogues in Our Time | 752 |
Bibliography | 795 |
Index | 901 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 237 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...
Página 657 - God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns.
Página 383 - The heart, the heart,— there was the little yet boundless sphere wherein existed the original wrong of which the crime and misery of this outward world were merely types. Purify that inward sphere, and the many shapes of evil that haunt the outward, and which now seem almost our only realities, will turn to shadowy phantoms and vanish of their own accord...
Página 546 - Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.
Página 167 - The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity, and give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport.
Página 556 - The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories...
Página 30 - What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations.
Página 311 - ... one. If we reflect a moment upon the discoveries which, in the last four centuries, have been made in the- physical constitution of the universe, by the means of these buildings, and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their usefulness to every nation ? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light, which we must fain receive at second hand from Europe, are we not cutting ourselves off from the means of returning light...
Página 246 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Growth of the American Thought Volumen973 de Social and ethical thought series The Growth of American Thought |
| Autor | Merle Eugene Curti |
| Editor | Transaction Publishers, 1964 |
| ISBN | 1412837103, 9781412837101 |
| Largo | 939 páginas |
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