July 1897

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Articles
The Making of the Nation
“The past has made the present, and will make the future. It has made us a nation, despite a variety of life that threatened to keep us at odds amongst ourselves. ... It has taught us how to become strong, and will teach us, if we heed its moral, how to become wise, also, and single-minded.”
The Juggler
The Stony Pathway to the Woods
A Day in June
A Life Tenant
Nég Créol
Strauss, the Author of the Life of Jesus
John Sterling, and a Correspondence Between Sterling and Emerson
Mr. Allen's the Choir Invisible
The Decline of Legislatures
One Fair Daughter
The Future of Rural New England
Burke: A Centenary Perspective
Jowett and the University Ideal
