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V The Ohio Valley in American History
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In a notable essay Professor Josiah Royce has asserted the salutary influence of a highly organized provincial1 life in order to counteract2 certain evils arising from the tremendous development of nationalism in our own day. Among these evils he enumerates3: first, the frequent changes of dwelling4 place, whereby the community is in danger of losing the well-knit organization of a common life; second, the tendency to reduce variety in national civilization, to assimilate all to a common type and thus to discourage individuality, and produce a "remorseless mechanism—vast, irrational6;" third, the evils arising from the fact that waves of emotion, the passion of the mob, tend in our day to sweep across the nation.
Against these surges of national feeling Professor Royce would erect7 dikes in the form of provincialism, the resistance of separate sections each with its own traditions, beliefs and aspirations8. "Our national unities9 have grown so vast, our forces of social consolidation10 so paramount11, the resulting problems, conflicts, evils, have become so intensified," he says, that we must seek in the province renewed strength, usefulness and beauty of American life.
Whatever may be thought of this philosopher's appeal for a revival12 of sectionalism, on a higher level, in order to check the tendencies to a deadening uniformity of national [158]consolidation (and to me this appeal, under the limitations which he gives it, seems warranted by the conditions)—it is certainly true that in the history of the United States sectionalism holds a place too little recognized by the historians.
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