...by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged. Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...the sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Seventy years ago we...

...by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before ; the world is not yet middle-aged. Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...the peculiar, chosen people — the Israel of our tune ; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Seventy years ago we escaped from thrall ; and,...

...ago we escaped from thrall ; and, besides our first birthright — embracing one continent of earth Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people — God has given to us, for a future inheritance, the broad domains of the political pagans, that...

...the rear, and impeding their march with lumbering baggage-wagons of old precedents. This is the Past. Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did...express dispensation; to her were given new things under 1 the sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people | —the Israel of our time; we bear the...

...by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged. ways of the Egyptians. To her was given an express...the sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Seventy years ago we...

...fraternity and freedom which constitute America's unique original values. He thought that Americans were "the peculiar, chosen people— the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world."35 NOTES 1. The philosophy of John Dewey is the systematized expression of this temper. See...

...Gailes of the Holy Ghost Who sweetly briezes all along this Coast. — Edward Taylor, Meditation II, 78 And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people —...time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. —Herman Melville, White- Jacket [Cf. 1 Peter 2:9] In a Jewish Theological Seminary address of 1903,...

...condition of being an American is a single sentence written by Herman Melville in his novel White Jacket: "And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people...our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world."1 This was not the last time this idea was expressed by Americans. It was at the center of thought...

...literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS374.Q47H37 1990 89-36082 818'.50809'353-dc20 CIP ISBN 0-299-12370-7 s We Americans are the peculiar chosen people — the Israel of our time. ... We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things,...

...White-Jacket (chap. 36) he picked up again the analogy that the New England settlers had cherished: "And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people...time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world" (p. 151). This sense of a divine destiny for America runs in and out of his writing; among the complexities...