Excerpt from The Spirit of the West: A Dream of 1915
Brooding over our western world is a sense of destiny. Consciously or unconsciously, working through the mind of the individual or in the soul of the race, a feeling of vastness helps to make us what we are. The future of the world is with us. On the Pacific slope our young and brawny western civilization makes its last stand as it confronts the hoary east. Here our western manhood and womanhood must needs reach their full height. Here is to be produced the consummate flower of human evolution.
This and more than this, infinitely more, Courtney Rowland has perceived. His dream is more than a dream. In the deep sense of the word, this is a great prophetic utterance, not prophetic only in the narrow meaning of "predictive" but prophetic in its passion for spiritual realities and in its enthusiasm for human liberty. This dreamer has the imagination of a poet, the largeness and power of a statesman, and the fervor of a lover.
The writer brings to his task the equipment of the trained historian. Into a few paragraphs he distils the wealth of hundreds of volumes. He brings back to us the life of Man upon this planet; sketches in bold, strong lines the division of the human family into tribes and nations; visualizes for us the migrations of successive centuries. He calls up before us the giant forms of empires on their way to ruin, and fastens our gaze upon the triumphant westward march of the race. It has been written in the counsels of the Eternal, he says in effect, that no eastward movement shall ever permanently succeed.
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