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Page 2 of 2Herbert Croly
January 23, 1869 - May 17, 1930
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author
|  The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness. | | The average American is nothing if not patriotic. | | The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter. | | Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. | | The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. | | In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. |
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