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When the West Is Gone
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The West has gone, and it behooves us to look into our household and to examine the estate, to peregrinate our boundaries and to gaze across them at the world outside. We have hitherto regarded life from a setting in which the implicit condition was the West that was. Ever it was there, exercising its influence upon our course. When it was new, it formed our character as a nation, giving to the world in the process a new race whose advent was not foreseen and whose very existence was not realized until its character was formed beyond repression or recall. It is not possible, I must repeat, to foretell the future; yet every act of every states man must be based on some assumption. He must move into the future as though he under stood it. If in the years to come he should for get, Or should not know, that the background of our life has changed, he would lessen the use fulness to us of a position that is even yet strategic, and to the world of an inspiration that has not ceased to be authentic.
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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.
The West has gone, and it behooves us to look into our household and to examine the estate, to peregrinate our boundaries and to gaze across them at the world outside. We have hitherto regarded life from a setting in which the implicit condition was the West that was. Ever it was there, exercising its influence upon our course. When it was new, it formed our character as a nation, giving to the world in the process a new race whose advent was not foreseen and whose very existence was not realized until its character was formed beyond repression or recall. It is not possible, I must repeat, to foretell the future; yet every act of every states man must be based on some assumption. He must move into the future as though he under stood it. If in the years to come he should for get, Or should not know, that the background of our life has changed, he would lessen the use fulness to us of a position that is even yet strategic, and to the world of an inspiration that has not ceased to be authentic.
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.
164 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1930
About the author
Frederic L. Paxson
130 books3 followersFrederic Logan Paxson was an American historian, and an authority on the American West.
He earned his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
From 1932 to 1947 he served as professor at the University of California.
He also served as President of the Organization of American Historians.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1925 for History of the American Frontier.
He earned his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
From 1932 to 1947 he served as professor at the University of California.
He also served as President of the Organization of American Historians.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1925 for History of the American Frontier.
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