California, More Than Any Other Part Of

The Tendency Everywhere In America To Concentrate Power And Responsibility In One Man Is Unmistakable.

The National Park Is The Best Idea America Ever Had.

Individualism, The Love Of Enterprise, And The Pride In Personal Freedom, Have Been Deemed By Americans Not Only As Their Choicest, But Their Peculiar And Exclusive Possessions.

It Is Accepted As An Axiom By All Americans That The Civil Power Ought To Be Not Only Neutral And Impartial As Between Different Forms Of Faith, But Ought To Leave These Matters Entirely On One Side, Regarding Them No More Than It Regards The Artistic Or Literary Pursuits Of The Citizens.

There Is A Hearty Puritanism In The View Of Human Nature Which Pervades The Instrument Of 1787. It Is The Work Of Men Who Believed In Original Sin, And Were Resolved To Leave Open For Transgressors No Door Which They Could Possibly Shut.