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Westward empire

Chapter 3: PROLOGUE OF MOTTOES.
By Elias Lyman Magoon
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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.

PERICLES;

OR,

THE AGE OF ARTISTIC BEAUTY.

PROLOGUE OF MOTTOES.

"Could we create so close, tender, and cordial a connection between the citizens of a state, as to induce all to consider themselves as relatives—as fathers, brothers, and sisters, then this whole state would constitute but a single family, be subjected to the most perfect regulations, and become the happiest republic that ever existed upon earth."—Plato.

"Although this great edifice of universal history, where the conclusion at least is still wanting, is in this respect incomplete, and appears but a mighty fragment of which even particular parts are less known to us than others; yet is this edifice sufficiently advanced, and many of its great wings and members are sufficiently unfolded to our view, to enable us, by a lucid arrangement of the different periods of history, to gain a clear insight into the general plan of the whole."—Frederic Von Schlegel.

"Whatever is necessary exists."—De Maistre.

"God shall enlarge Japhet, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem."—Genesis ix. 27.