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THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN THE WRITINGS
OF AMERICANS OF FOREIGN BIRTH
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The American Spirit in the
Writings of Americans
of Foreign Birth
SELECTIONS CHOSEN AND EDITED
BY
ROBERT E. STAUFFER, A. M., B. L. S.
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The Christopher Publishing House
Boston, U. S. A.
Copyright 1922
By The Christopher Publishing House
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
To my revered friend and teacher
Joseph Lorain Shunk
And to my younger friend
Henry Praus
The one born in the United States
The other in far-away Czecho-Slovakia
But in both of whom I have found
True and noble manifestations
Of the American spirit
Let us judge our immigrants also out of their own mouths, as futuregenerations will be sure to judge them.
Mary Antin.
He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudicesand manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life hehas embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank heholds.... The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles;he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.
Crèvecoeur.
Where the schoolhouse banner flaunts the morning breeze,
Where the rough farm student strides amid the wheat,
Where the voice of knowledge fills a thousand halls,
Where the athletes in their mimic warfare meet;
Where the master grasps the brand
Of lightning in his hand,
And the hidden Powers of Air to service bent
Proclaim the issue of the long experiment,
I behold the future race
Arise in strength and grace;
Shall they falter? Shall they fail? Shall they endure?
Lo, the onward march is sure.
William James Dawson.
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INTRODUCTION
A visit to the public library of many towns and cities offive to twenty thousand inhabitants, and inquiry among personsof considerable and even college education, reveals awidespread unacquaintance with the writings of our foreign-borncitizens. Seldom does one find the books of more thanfour or five of these authors upon the shelves of the smallerpublic and college libraries; yet these institutions are doingmuch to develop public opinion in countless communities madeup for the                         
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