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Excerpt from Thoughts on the Literary Prospects of America: An Essay The problem that all men are born with equal rights, has been settled by America in the face of the world - but that the Ameri cans are endowed with all the intellectual attributes of the most favored of nature, time must discover, and conjectures for the future can only be based on the present condition of the people and the history of the past. If distinct races are differently gifted, and various climates peculiarly characterized in a mental point of View, the Americans may claim all the advantages resulting from either, inasmuch as they derive their origin from the most cultivated nations, and the extent of their territory embraces every variety of climate. But it cannot be denied that the European countries poséess many advantages over our republic in the pursuit of letters. They have their ancient institutions of learning, wherein the wis dom of ages is collected; their professed authors, whose lives are devoted to literature; and their gentlemen of leisure, Whose fortunes are acquired by inheritance, who naturally' engage in the pursuit of literature and the elegant arts. These combine to maintain their enlightened position, and to facilitate their future advances. They have a 'long start' of the Americans in the great race for national glory, and could mensuration as correctly set forth the destiny of states from premises palpable to all, as may be told the future revolutions of planets, calculated from the same infallible data which has invariably proved correct - then the prize would inevitably be to the strong and experienced, and the new żedged aspirants of our young confederacy would doubtless be 'distanced.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Thoughts on the Literary Prospects of America
• Subtitle: An Essay (Classic Reprint)
• Author: J. Jones
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 22
• EAN: 9781333220570
• ISBN: 133322057X
• ID: 13923712
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 46 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 1 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. August 2016

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