The Historical Significance of American Revolution
[color=#29384e][size=10.5pt]The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] a multiplicity of persons[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] and distant localities as the expression of one intellectual or social movement[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]；[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] yet the historical process which culminated in the ascent of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency can be regarded as the outstanding example not only of the birth of a new way of life but of nationalism as a new way of life. The American Revolution represents the link between the seventeenth century[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] in which modern England became conscious of itself[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] and the awakening of modern Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. It may seem strange that the march of history should have had to cross the Atlantic Ocean[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] but only in the North American colonies could a struggle for civic liberty lead also to the foundation of a new nation. Here[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] in the popular rising against a[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]“[/size][/font][size=10.5pt]tyrannical[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]”[/size][/font][size=10.5pt]government[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] the fruits were more than the securing of a freer constitution. They included the growth of a nation born in liberty by the will of the people[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] not from the roots of common descent[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] a geographic entity[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] or the ambitions of king or dynasty. With the American nation[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] for the first time[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] a nation was born[/size][font=宋体][size=10.5pt]，[/size][/font][size=10.5pt] not in the dim past of history but before the eyes of the whole world.[/size][/color]页:
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