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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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e.They who are prompted to seek widergeographic horizons are not easilysatisfied with political horizons anynarrower than those afforded by agovernment in which people, not po-tentates, are the rulers. This strongbent of their spirits to remove to-ward the Pacific was a potent factorin the making of America. Jdut these pioneers had anotherquality, hardly less spiritual thantheir desire for more breathing-space,more freedom. It was their deter-mination not to be cut off entirelyfrom that which they left behind asthey turned their faces toward thewest. Impelled by a sort of racialnostalgia, they turned the trails overwhich they marched into roads thatwould enable them to keep in touchwith the friends in the regions whencethey had come or through which theyhad passed. They thus laid whatmight be called the social foundationsfor an American communication sys-tem—a system which grew in extentand efficiency as needs increased dur-ing the passing years. 19^0 The Conquest of a Continent 199
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THE STRONG BENT OF THEIR SPIRITS TO REMOVE THITHER The departure of a company of emigrants from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for the Con-necticut valley in 1635. From a drawing made for the Telephone Almanac of 1929 There were political foundations, aswell. Here in America there wasdestined to be brought into being agovernment not of emperors or kingsor czars. It was to be ruled by thepeople. As Simeon Strunsky has writ-ten, in The Living Tradition, it wasto be held together by one cohesiveforce which lies wholly outside therealm of steam and rail and wire, buthas not failed to profit by such physi-cal agencies. That was the bindingforce of an Idea. It was the spirit ofunion pervading the atmosphere of theThirteen Colonies, the sense of com-mon destiny, the feeling of participa-tion in the building of a United Stateslong before there was a UnitedStates. This spiritual quality of a sense ofnationhood, this instinct for interde-pendence, was one of the reasons whymen first built roads,

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