Identifier: schoolphysiology08bost (find matches)
Title: The school physiology journal
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Temperance Physiology Hygiene Temperance
Publisher: Boston : Mary H. Hunt
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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reverenced his laws as faras they understood them. To the colon-ists of the early days the American citizenof this age owes his noblest qualities. Not the least interesting circumstance con-nected with the discovery of this broad con-tinent is the fact that the struggle for thepossession of it revealed the superior vitality ofinstitutions and methods that first came tomaturity in England and now seem destined toshape the future of the world. The stern moral fibre of the nation in itsearly days ; the simplicity fostered by hardshipand peril; the stress laid upon education, sonecessary in a government by the people \ thefabric of our constitution, and the languageof the country were Englands indisputablecontribution. Of all migrations of peoplesthe settlement of New England was preem-inently the one in which the almightly dollarplayed the smallest part, however ftnportant itmay since have become as a motive power. While the Dutch settlers infused into the FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS (From Fife.)
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IRISHMAN. Brothers! to keep for freedoms sakeThe flag of stars unfurledBeneath the stars of heaven—to makeThe star-light of the world ! nations blood a new commercial spirit and abroader religious tolerance, and emphasized thehomely domestic virtues, the Scotch-Irish addeda dash of wit, and the more showy accomplish-ments of oratory and statecraft. At the beginning of the present century con-ditions of life in this country had grown easier..Coming to America no longer meant dangerand bloodshed and privation. There was nowno room for colonists. The federal governmentwas established and it was prospective citizenswho were welcomed. From that time immi-gration set in. The overflow of middle andsouthern Europe crowded the portals of thenew world until in 1882, when the great influxof Russian Jews occurred, the number exceeded700,000 annually. As the vast majority ofthem were from the lowest peasant class theirvalue to the nation was measured almost en-tirely by the brawn of their muscle

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