Part II
4 During the first half of its history the characteristic achievement of the embryonic
5 United States of Northern America was political.
6 It was the GREAT EXPERIMENT in freedom of thought and expression which drew three million pioneers to it for a new way of life, and new opportunity;—despite ulterior motives of land patent schemes.
7 Nothing did the successive exploiters baggings of bright eyed families of colonists know of the complete massacres that had befallen their falsely billed
8 ‘‘ground breaking’’ predecessors
9 at Head Tide
10 Pemaquid, Popham, Castine, Wiscasset, Fox Island, Monhegan, and Bath in Bay of Maine Royal Company grants!
11 So frightful to home subjects and financially devastating to shipbuilding investments and empire exploitation would news of these massacres have proven to be,—if reported back home,—that fourteen long years of such human under-plowing were officially shushed so that 1620,—instead of 1606,—the king’s original granting year,—is popularly known as the Pilgrim’s premier.
12 But quite serenely—as the sun draws a billion tons of water each day unseen into the sky there to appear as beautiful clouds which in turn raining down maintain life on earth—by similar indirect cultivation a great quality came to America.
13 Because pioneering cannot abide action through fear the achievement vacuum drafted automatically and unnoticed a pure longing-dominated basic genetic ingredient from out the mixed fear and longing motivation-conglomerate of the older world into America.
14 In prosaic economics however the achievement unfolded as the net result
15 of agricultural and craft ingenuity under highly cooperative measures essential to hard pioneering survival.
16 Not only building each other houses, tilling each other’s fields, these free individuals also gave their lives freely for others.
17 Would fight their way through thousands of miles of wilderness to save one another.
18 Thus on the American frontier, these three million pioneers from Europe miraculously multiplied their numbers not just through mating but by the conservation of brotherhood to a twenty-three million living population between the years 1600--1850 despite a high rate of mortality.
19 During the second half of U.S.A, history, that is, from about 1850 to the present, and especially during the twentieth century, its characteristic achievement has been INDUSTRIALIZATION.
20 During this period thirty-five million people ferried across the Atlantic in the new steamships to the U.S.A.’s citied shores for survival betterment.
21 This second phase is indeed the logical outgrowth of the first. It represents the fulfillment, or the partial fulfillment, of the opportunity that men came to seek.
22 Towards that opportunity for a period of 340 years three hundred and seventy million native born offspring of from one to ten generations
23 of the original
24 thirty-eight million total migrants
25 to the United States portion of Northern America have each in some measure
26 made contribution:—
27 grand totalling, numerically,
28 four hundred and eight million individuals of whom one third are even now
29 much alive.
30 But genetically the blood of the U.S.A, is three parts to one of the original pre-revolutionary freedom loving and fearless virulent pioneer fluid, and nine to one native bom despite visible enormity of immigrant slums, a fact which world politicos fail to grasp
31 though often stunned by its backfire.