...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,...

...America as in essence a hybrid nation was articulated as early as the 17805 by Crevecoeur, who wrote: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur,...

...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." And in a vein of historical predestination,...

...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterin- will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims...

...married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. . . . they will finish the great...

...ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world .... The American is a new man,...

...agriculturalist and close observer of American life, who declared in Letters from an American Farmer that "here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." Wending its way into nineteenth-century...

...of the emerging nation, who was farming in upstate New York: "Americans are western pilgrims . . . whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world."58 To be sure, but it may have taken someone perhaps rather close to French political intelligence...

...to a Frenchwoman, with the couple's four sons married to wives of different nations, and explained, "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of man, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world."18 Other early antecedents...

...Quakers and Puritans, emigrated to America to escape British oppression. As one foreign observer noted, "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." Most colonists, therefore, had no enduring love of the crown. With the exception of royal governors...