...&c. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman. 1855. 422 pp., 12mo. " IT cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new ° Vol. VII., part 2, p. 389. era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative...

...transcendental world-spirit which Webster was preaching. "It cannot be denied," he declared, "but by those who dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs." The United States was more than a nation-state or a place. It was an idea, "inseparably connected,...

...you this consideration of our position and our character among the nations of the earth. It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against...distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable...

...quoting [Webster's words] as the epitome of the ideals of the School of Foreign Service": It cannot be denied but by those who would dispute against the...and in America a new era commences in human affairs. And let the sacred obligations which have devolved on this generation and on us sink deep in our hearts....

...urge this consideration of our position and our character among the nations of the earth. It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against...distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national bitercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable...