American Ideas for English Readers【電子書籍】[ James Russell Lowell ]

＜p＞An impression has prevailedーand has gained credence at some times and in some places, that, in his later years, and in the presence of a society differently organized from that which he found at home, the ardor of his love of country was quenched:ーthat he became less an American as he saw more of other lands. What is it to be an American? The definition may vary, in different regions. What was it, always, with him? If to be an American means merely to be successful in a large and worldly wayーwhether in politics, or in business, or in letters; to out-talk, out-spend, out-bid, out-invent others; to drive faster; to travel farther; to push harder; to build bigger houses; to found more richly endowed Universities; to construct greater Observatories; to establish more and larger public libraries:ーif to do these and similar things is all that goes to make an Americanーthe charge is true. In such sense, Mr. Lowell was not so good an American as some others. But, in the larger and truer sens．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る