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The work presents a broad, interpretive survey of human history that treats progress as a westward-moving drama under providential guidance. It sketches successive cultural ages and traces how literature, art, science, religion, and commerce have shifted emphasis across eras. Rather than detailed biographies, it compiles a compact nomenclature of celebrated figures and landmark events to demonstrate continuity and cumulative improvement. The author highlights recurring patterns of expansion, innovation, and renewal, arguing that major enterprises and population movements have tended to unfold toward the west. The treatment privileges grand outlines and synthesis over granular documentation.

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Title: Westward empire

or, the great drama of human progress

Author: Elias Lyman Magoon

Release date: August 15, 2024 [eBook #74262]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856

Credits: Peter Becker, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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WESTWARD EMPIRE;

OR,

The Great Drama of Human Progress.

BY

E.L. MAGOON,

AUTHOR OF "PROVERBS FOR THE PEOPLE," "REPUBLICAN CHRISTIANITY,"
"ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION," "LIVING ORATORS IN AMERICA," ETC., ETC.

"Westward the course of empire takes its way,
The four first acts already past;
A fifth shall close the drama with the day,
Time's noblest offspring is the last."

George Berkeley.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS,

329 TO 335 PEARL STREET.

1856.