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Lehi (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ca was settled by the Jaredites, who came direct from the scenes of Babel, that the Aborigines also came from the East, and were followed by peoples at least closely allied to the Israelites, that the existing native races of America were born of a common stock, and that the so-called historical part of the Book of Mormon has adequate testimony to its claims. The Jaredites, extinct by 590 B. C., are thus reported to have occupied both North and South America for about 1850 years. Then came Lehi and his company to this continent to develop into segregated nations, Nephites and Lemanites; the former disappearing about 385 A. D., the latter degenerating into the Indians of a century ago. In consequence the Book of Mormon becomes an effort to transplant Hebraic traditions, though scholarship takes no such hegira seriously, and the volume depends for its validity on evidence and assertion presented by itself and accepted only by those convinced by the same. To Gentiles objecting to a
Amherst (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
etely divorced from the outward stir of life, retiring, by preference, deeper and deeper within. Born in 1830 at Amherst, Massachusetts, she lived there all her life, and in 1886 died there. The inwardness and moral ruggedness of Puritanism she inhunt Jackson, See also Book III, Chaps. VI and XI. herself a poetess of some distinction, and her early schoolmate at Amherst—she had another sympathetic friend, who, suspecting the extent of her production, asked for the post of literary executoran through many editions, and The Science of wealth; a Manual of political economy (1866) by Professor Amasa Walker, of Amherst. Less important were E. Lawton's Lectures on Science, politics, morals, and Society (1862) and President J. T. Champlincultivated in Virginia, was taught from 1839 to 1842 at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, by Edward Dromgoole Simms. At Amherst it was taught as early as 1841, if not before, by William Chauncey Fowler, Noah Webster's son-in-law. In 1851 Child int
Tanana (Alaska, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
describing this region belie this term, and it is now well understood that Seward secured a treasure house for a pittance. Seward's Address on Alaska at Sitka, August 12, 1869, in Old South Leaflets, Vol. 6, No. 133 (1904) is interesting in this connection. There are a great number of reports, and narratives like those of the veteran William H. Dall; Captain W. R. Abercrombie's Alaska, 1899, copper River exploring expedition (1900); Henry T. Allen's Report of an expedition to the copper, Tanana, and Koyukuk rivers in the territory of Alaska in the year 1885 (1887); M. M. Ballou's The New Eldorado, a summer Tour in Alaska (1889); Reports by A. H. Brooks; Miss Scidmore's Alaska (1885), etc. In 1899 a private expedition was organized which cruised in a chartered ship along the Alaskan coast and across Bering Sea to Siberia. A large party of scientific men were guests of the projector, Edward Henry Harriman, and there were also several artists. The results were published in a ser
Fort Laramie (Wyoming, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
romise. Presently, from the same Independence that saw the wagon track vanish southwestward with its caravans for Santa Fe, another track faded into the plains to the north-west and hammered its devious sagebrush course over mountains, over valleys, through difficult canyons, across dangerous rivers or deserts of death to the Columbia River, to Oregon, to California. This was the path that Francis Parkman, See also Book III, Chap. XV. just out of college, followed in 1846 as far as Fort Laramie; an experience which gave us The California and Oregon Trail (1849). Ezra Meeker travelled it in 1852 and back again in 1906, and in The ox-team, or the Old Oregon Trail (1906) he relates what befell him in this long, wild journey with an ox-team—a real bull-whacker's tale. Mrs. Ann Boyd had experiences on this difficult highway in the late forties, and she presents the record in The Oregon Trail (1862). A rare volume on the same road is Joel Palmer's Journal of travels over the Rocky
Lynn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
el, was the foremost writer of the day. All these forces prompted Herne to deal with the fundamentals of character in his dramatic work. He became interested, as Maeterlinck would say, in conditions of soul. His dialogue in Margaret Fleming (Lynn, Mass., 4 July, 1880), rang true, instinct with homely life; his Griffith Davenport (Washington, D. C., 16 January, 1899）—a drama of the Civil War based not on external action but on inward struggle—was filled with sincerity; his Shore Acres (Chicagos dangerously near to winning, without reason, repute of a cure-all. In his pale and hazy manner, Alcott went about New England lecturing in orphic sayings on things which neither he nor anyone else understood. Once in his last years he spoke in Lynn, it is reported, before one of Mrs. Eddy's classes formed not earlier than 1870, when she was beginning definitely to hammer out on the stout anvil of an unyielding will her vision never afterwards to fade that There is no life, truth, intelligenc<
Russian River (Alaska, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
at, and admitted a little humour to his stories. But essentially he remained the Ghetto writer, with a talent for the cheerless, the desolate. Z. Levin is another of the realistic skitze writers. Many of his stories are meritorious, but with all the correctness of his realism, with all his insight into human motives, he leaves the reader cold. Only the worshippers of realism as a cult enjoy him. Of much bigger calibre is Leon Kobrin (born in Russia in 1872). His literary debut was in Russian, and when he came to New York in 1892 he was surprised to hear that there was such a thing as literature in Yiddish or jargon, as the vernacular was contemptuously called in Russia. Nevertheless he joined hands with the inspired band of intellectuals and propagandists led by Abraham Cahan, Philip Krantz, and Benjamin Feigenbaum, and began contributing to the socialist publications in the vernacular, shelving his squeamishness and wielding his pen from right to left as best he could. In 18
Long Island City (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
h included Cadwallader Colden, See Book I, Chap. II. David Hosack, Hugh Williamson, and Samuel L. Mitchill, See Book II, Chap. II. not to mention Benjamin Rush and David Ramsay, See Book II, Chap. XVII. who lived elsewhere. Francis's Old New York (1858) is a charming description of the city under a generation then vanishing. Others of the group were: Henry Onderdonck, Jr. (1804-86), who wrote Annals of Hempstead (1878), Queens County in olden times (1865), and other books on Long Island history; Gabriel Furman (1800-53), who left a most accurate book in his Notes . . . relating to the town of Brooklyn (1824); Rev. Francis Lister Hawks (1789-1866), best remembered for his History of North Carolina (1857-58) and his documents relating to the Anglican Church in the colonies; and Henry Barton Dawson (1821-1889), a turbulent spirit who served history best as editor of The historical magazine. John Romeyn Brodhead (1814-73), whose transcripts have been mentioned, wrote an exc
New Harmony (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
zian conception of education into America; later he induced Neef to remove to America, and in Philadelphia in 1808 Neef issued his Plan and method of education, the first distinctly pedagogical work published in the United States. The work of Neef in his first school was briefly described in later years in the memoirs of his most distinguished pupil, Admiral Farragut. Subsequently McClure and Neef both joined in the communistic and educational scheme which Robert Owen established at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825. Owen had published in 1813 his New views of Society, which was widely circulated in America as a means of educational and social propaganda. The substance of this dissertation was delivered by invitation before the American Congress, of which Owen's son, Robert Dale Owen, was later a member. The son also issued his Outline of the system of education at New Lanark, Scotland, as a part of the American propaganda. The New Harmony experiment was a failure (1828), and the lit
Salt Lake City (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Smiths, not including Mrs. Joseph Smith, who opposed the publication of the Book. By those accustomed to consider historical evidence it will perhaps be kept in mind that of only Joseph Smith have we more important knowledge than the mention of their names, and that he was the party most concerned. From such a questionable beginning Mormonism has grown —as a standard historian admits—into an extraordinary force. The latest report, dated May 3, 1921, from the official headquarters in Salt Lake City, states that there are now 900 Latter Day settlements, many of importance, that representatives of the faith have made a world-wide reputation as superior colonizers of good character, that great progress has been made in education, that 1933 of their missionaries are now carrying the message at their own expense to many quarters of the globe, that their book, now published in fifteen languages, has run into the hundreds of thousands, and that they are represented in Congress and for the
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ablished Church in the colony. Of this body of material, one bit is of more than ephemeral value. For when the persuasive Blair pleaded for the chartering and endowment of the college by the monarchs on the grounds that the colonists, as well as the people at home, had souls to save, the testy Seymour replied, with more force than elegance, Damn your souls! Make tobacco! The fullest account of Southern colonial education, in fact of Southern colonial life, is Hugh Jones's Present State of Virginia (1724). He pays his compliments to the prevailing type of education in the following description of an important educational custom of the colonial period: As for education, several are sent to England for it, though the Virginians, being naturally of good parts (as I have already hinted) neither require nor admire as much learning as we do in Britain; yet more would be sent over were they not afraid of the smallpox, which most commonly proves fatal to them. But indeed, when they
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