AN ESSAY ON THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA
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Failure to admit that the American, is at heart an idealist is to lack understanding of our national character. Two of our greatest interpreters proclaimed it, Emerson and William James. In a recent take up at the Paris Sorbonne on “American Idealism,” M. Firmin Roz experimental that a people is rarely justly estimated by its contemporaries. The French, he says, have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors, while in the disturbed ’speculum mundi’ Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. It remained for the war to reveal the right scenery of both peoples. The American colonists, M. Roz continues, unlike additional colonists, were animated not by material motives, but by the desire to safeguard and realize an ideal; our inherent characteristic today is a belief in the virtue and power of thoughts, of a national, indeed, of a universal, mission. In the Eighteenth Century we proposed a Philosophy and adopted a Constitution far in advance of the political practice of the day, and set up a government of which Europe predicted the early breakdown. Nevertheless, thanks partly to excellent chance, and to the farseeing wisdom of our early statesmen who perceived that the success of our conduct experiment depended upon the maintenance of an isolation from European affairs, we customary democracy as a practical form of government.
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remember that the allies wanted america to enter the war but fdr could not do so lacking strong justification … the writing is brilliant / crisp / dry whitted / classic churchill. at 0.00 on kindle and a fleeting read / it is recommended for the reader who wishes to gain some background on the thinking of the times. i give it a b plus. (yes, i know that this is written by the american churchill who graduated from the naval college and became a journalist and who died nearly 2 decades before the pm but thank you for pointing this out).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Note: this is not written by “THE” Winston Churchill. This one was written by an American novelist and essayist with nearly the same name who lived from 1871-1947. Sir Winston Churchill signed his works Winston S. Churchill in order to differentiate between the two.
The essay is inspired by a 1917 visit to the battlefields of Europe during World War I.
Churchill’s essay is an appealing bit of history in that it appeals to ancient ideals of the ancient Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are many comments that hold to all of the hallmarks and ideals of the movement, including an obsessive faith in science and psychology (line 200) and a belief that human scenery is basically excellent but just needs to be re-educated (line 228).
He advocates a new political party based on the teachings of modern social science (line 290), a federal economy in order to be more well-organized (line 360) and he proposes that “incomes are to be taxed above the necessary cost of family tree maintenance (line 367) and the “progessive elimination of the private capitalist (line 368).
Fascinatingly, he argues that the solution to all of society’s ills comes from federal economic power in the form of a democratically elected central government that will be led by people who have been properly educated with our newly-learned scientifically-based methods that will get rid of the dangers of greedy human scenery. (lines 395 & 462)
This essay would be a wonderful past document companion to Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, a scathing look at these sorts of “Progressive” policies.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5