Well Worth Reading
The Last Best Hope: “Chivalry, adventure, and the missionary spirit,” wrote Charles Lummis, “made of early America a story without a parallel . . . . It was bigger and wilder and richer and more strange than man had ever dreamed before; fuller of opportunities for conquest, of wonders, of mountains and rivers and waterfalls, of beasts and birds and reptiles and trees and flowers, all unknown and all intriguing; full of strange and innumerable peoples, from cannibals up to folk whose architecture might challenge that of classic antiquity; full of adventure, as adventure had never been known before.”
A chunk of this adventure is expertly served up every other month in American Heritage. This is a hard cover bimonthly, 8½ x 11, 120 pages, richly laced with illustrations. There are color reproductions of paintings by American artists, of political posters and circus handbills, and things in black and white as well. The articles range from a narrative of the war of sea in 1812 to a yarn about cattle brands; from an account of Jackson’s battle with the Second Bank of the United States to a first hand picture of life on an old plantation, plus contemporary Americana.
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From a Libertarian’s Library
We Americans seem to believe that just because our pioneer fathers once subjugated the Indians, we in turn are obligated to keep them in the bondage of government “security.” As a result, the Indian has the status of a ward instead of a citizen. Instead of being a responsible person, he is a dependent.
And in a like manner, if we free Americans continue to turn to government for our security, we too will surely become dependent wards instead of responsible citizens. There will be a Commissioner to control our personal affairs and our individual responsibilities. Instead of calico and blankets, we may be promised a hundred dollars every month. But since the principle is the same in both cases, the results will also eventually be the same.
From an article by Dean Russell in Essays on Liberty, Vol. I. Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. 308 pp. 50¢ paper-bound, $2.50 clothbound.
