ISBN: 9780217201407

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have oc… More...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. Books Democracy-in-America~~Jerome-Dowd General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA. CHAPTER I. PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AMERICANS. AMERICANS POSSESS A STRONG INSTINCT OF PUGNACITY ?THEY ARE SELF-ASSERTIVE AND BOASTFUL?BLIND TO OBVIOUS SHORTCOMINGS?SELF-RELIANT?MANIFEST STRONG ANTIPATHIES?CHARACTER OF AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR?CONSERVATISM?ALTRUISM? IDEALISM?MENTAL AND MORAL TEMPERAMENT? OVER-STRENUOUS LIFE LEADS TO DISCONTENT AND RESTLESSNESS. Foreign critics seem to agree in the opinion that the Americans possess psychological characteristics different from those of any other people. "No one who has traveled, as I have," says Alexander Francis, "in Australia and South Africa as well as in- America, can fail to realize that the American, in a sense which does not apply to British colonists, has been made over into a new man by the new mode of life which he has embraced, and the new government which he obeys, in his new land?a man who acts upon new ideas, new principles and new prejudices in the new world which he hasmade his own?a man in whom the climate and other potent factors of his new physical environment have wrought a new psychological type, while the more subtle influences of a new continent, which he has almost to himself, and in which he has long been kept practically free from contact and entanglement with the Old World, were producing a type intellectually and morally new." In seeking to define the peculiarities of this new type, we are led to note, in the first place, that one of the characteristics of the Americans, conspicuous in all Teutonic races, and especially accentuated in the English, is a very strong degree of pugnacity. This has been developed among the Teutonic races in their long history of warfare, and in their struggle for existence in a climate which requires strenuous physical and ment...<

ISBN: 9780217201407

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have oc… More...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. Books, , Democracy-in-America~~Jerome-Dowd, 999999999, Democracy In America, Jerome Dowd, 0217201407, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

1921, ISBN: 0217201407

1921, ISBN: 0217201407