"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of f…"

"I must atone for my wealth. I will reward the country of my adoption for the great benefits I have gathered."

"The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can …"

"Man does not dwell at the centre of things, but is the denizen of an obscure and tiny speck of cosmical matter quite …"

"In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increme…"

"The United States—bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on th…"

"Manifest Destiny and imperialism were traps into which the nation was led in 1846 and in 1899, and from which it extr…"

"With the age-old goal of universal prosperity within sight, we must question whether the methods—technological values…"