These are tough times we be in, but I thought I'd share the words of Frederick Jackson Turner's great speech on what "Americanism" was. To him, an American in the west, was "shaped by the challenge of his situation". How the frontier shaped an American into something unique. I think his words, though sort of deep, are of great value to us.
It is to the frontier that the American intellect owes its most striking characteristics:
"That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to affect great ends; that restless nervous energy; that dominant individualism working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy that comes with freedom- these are the traits of the frontier..."
It is to the frontier that the American intellect owes its most striking characteristics:
"That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to affect great ends; that restless nervous energy; that dominant individualism working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy that comes with freedom- these are the traits of the frontier..."
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