The Coming Americans

The Coming Americans

The American people can never lose its English-Teutonic force and masterfulness, but the infusion of a measure of Mediterranean and Alpine blood is to make us more versatile intellectually, says Ivan C. Waterbury in the World Today. It will make us more truly scientific by developing that power of inductive research and of forming judgments by scientific weighing of evidence which is declared to be correlated with a mixture of bloods. Above all, it is to make us more imaginative and gentler in our thoughts and feelings. In other words, it is to quicken and develop in us the artistic and poetic nature. Therefore not only will there be great achievements in literature, music, painting, sculpture and architecture by American individuals, but also an artistic public consciousness by which we shall enjoy highly the beautiful things of life and be intolerant of commercial neglect and vandalism.