Fiske, John, 1842-1901 / 2008-06-14 00:00:00
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AMERICAN POLITICAL IDEAS
VIEWED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
Three Lectures
DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN IN MAY 1880
BY JOHN FISKE
_Voici un fait entierement nouveau dans le monde, et dont l'imagination
elle-meme ne saurait saisir la portee._
TOCQUEVILLE
TO
EDWARD LIVINGSTON YOUMANS
NOBLEST OF MEN AND DEAREST OF FRIENDS
WHOSE UNSELFISH AND UNTIRING WORK IN EDUCATING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN
THE PRINCIPLES OF SOUND PHILOSOPHY DESERVES THE GRATITUDE OF ALL MEN
I dedicate this Book
PREFACE.
In the spring of 1879 I gave at the Old South Meeting-house in Boston a
course of lectures on the discovery and colonization of America, and
presently, through the kindness of my friend Professor Huxley, the
course was repeated at University College in London. The lectures there
were attended by very large audiences, and awakened such an interest in
American history that I was invited to return to England in the
following year and treat of some of the philosophical aspects of my
subject in a course of lectures at the Royal Institution.
In the three lectures which were written in response to this invitation,
and which are now published in this little volume, I have endeavoured to
illustrate some of the fundamental ideas of American politics by setting
forth their relations to the general history of mankind.
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