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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. CITIES AS UNITS IN OUR POLITY. It has been an accepted truth since the writings of De Tocque- ville that the town organization is the unit of American political life. In the preceding number of this Review it was clearly set forth by Governor Seymour. There lies the germ of political wisdom and reform; but it is in the cities that the greatest difficulties are found. The periodical ebb and flow of the great tide of population, the varied interests, the unceasing friction, the banded masses of the unsympathetic foreign-born, with universal suffrage as the basis of power?all these present an organization very different from the simpler unity of a rural town. Yet the cities stand as the great head from which purposes, and the great heart from which pulsations, start for the whole country, and from them good government and reform must arise. Are they too unwieldy for human direction, too discordant to elect their best men, and too debased for universal suffrage ? Must they drift without helm through tides and rocks, by negations through imbecility and corruption ? or is an intelligent, manly, and affirmative administration practicable ? Of all cities on this continent, New York presents this question with the widest relations and the greatest complications; and success here would be the most emphatic. Its local relations to the whole continent, its wealth, and its energy force it onward to a manifest destiny. It must go on, in spite of every ill fortune and of antagonistic legislation, to receive the growth which nature gives it It must become the largest and the most elegant city of the continent, and it must do this on the basis of universal suffrage. Noblesse oblige. If it works this out well (and it must work it out well or ill), it will present a new unit and germ o...

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780217360401
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0217360408
Herausgeber: General Books LLC

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