A Prologue to American History An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the Unive
A Prologue to American History An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the Unive
Samuel Eliot Morison
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Twenty years ago it seemed that this genius for political experiment had played itself out; that America had settled into smug satisfaction with things as they were. But in the last twenty years we have introduced woman suffrage and direct popular legislation the initiative and referendum we 'havex abandoned laisMfffotrs for goveramenSTregula- tion, and we have adopted prohibition, the workings of which seem to be watched with keen and not altogether disinterested scrutiny on this side of the A...tlantic. It is too early as yet to say whether prohibition was a great reform or a great blunder; but say what you will of prohibition, America was the first of the greater nations to dare to vote for it. The American Revolution is no new subject of study at Oxford, and it is a subject that seems to appeal to young men of each successive generation. It lacks some of the spectacular features of the French Revolution, being in the main a political movement, though economics underlay ever)' 1 phase of it.
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