Rhode Island; Its Making and Its Meaning, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint): A Survey of the Annals of the Commonwealth From Its Settlement to the Death of ... Roger Williams, 1636-1683 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Rhode Island; Its Making and Its Meaning, Vol. 1: A Survey of the Annals of the Commonwealth From Its Settlement to the Death of Roger Williams, 1636-1683

We live in a time Of great States, when the right Of small nations to exist is arrogantly denied by those who do not comprehend the worth Of variety and Of free individual development. But it ought to be remembered that down till the sixteenth century almost all the work we still prize in literature, in art, in philosophy and in religion, as well as in the creation Of institutions, had been done by the citi zens Of small cities or by the members Of small tribes. The gigantic nations of to-day, highly vitalized as they are by facilities of communication and transport, do not produce what Athens and Florence produced in the centuries Of their prime.

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