"To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity."
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Herbert Croly (1869-1930) was a pivotal American political theorist and co-founder of the progressive magazine *The New Republic*. Born in a well-to-do family in New York City, Croly was deeply influenced by the social challenges of his time. His seminal work, *The Promise of American Life*, championed a vision of democracy that sought to harmonize individual liberty with social equality. Through his advocacy for progressive reform and government intervention, Croly's legacy endures as a cornerstone of modern liberal thought, inspiring political discourse even today.
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"Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions."
Herbert Croly"The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise."
Herbert Croly"Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved."
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