Manifest Destiny

We too, even though we are not Anglo-Saxons, believe in manifest destiny and—we add for the benefit of the nativists— manifest destiny also believes in us. 

Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 3-4,11-17,27-29 Thomas Gossett, Race The History of an Idea in America (New York Schocken, 1963), pp. 84-122 Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 67-68. 

Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny, pp. 174, 219 Frederick Merk, Mani-... 

This chapter has pointed out the good and the bad, and approached the Transamazon Highway as the two-edged sword that it is, bringing development with destruction, in much the same way that the Transcontinental Railroad opened the American West to colonists, forever altering the prairie ecosystems of the plains and the indigenous populations that depended on them. The parallel with North America s frontier has been pointed out before, as has the comparability of Brazil s historic mandate to open Amazonia with the concept of manifest destiny, an obvious expression of national will to Americans who were drawn west once the railroad had paved the way (Walker, Browder, et al., 2009). 

Garcia EV. (2007) SPECT attenuarion correcrion an essential tool to reaUze nuclear cardiology s manifest destiny. J Nucl Cardiol 14 16-24... 

China never developed a policy comparable to, for example, America s nineteenth century doctrine of Manifest Destiny that permitted this country s continental expansion with impunity. China was already thousands of years old when the United States was in its first centiuy, and it hadn t the least interest in what we were doing. 

Art, the expression of society, manifests, in its highest soaring, the most advanced social tendencies it is the forerunner and the revealer. Therefore, to know whether art worthily fulfills its proper mission as initiator, where the artist becomes truly of the avant-garde, one must know where Humanity is itself going, know what the destiny of the human race actually is.. .. Along with the hymn to happiness [the advanced artist pictures] the dolorous and despairing ode. To lay bare with a brutal brush all the brutalities, all the filth, which are the base of our society, this is the mission of the avant-garde artist. ... 

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