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The Frontier a World Problem 1
by Carl Russell Fish
Only by a study of local history can we hope really to understand the development of human society. The historian like the scientist must base his knowledge on what can be seen through a microscope. Wisconsin, from the time of its formation as a state, has realized this, and has steadily confirmed itself in the opinion. This institution, which it founded in the days of its youth and scant resources, it has supported with a liberality, public and private, growing as its wealth has grown. Of late years, a corps of local societies, city and county, have been forming about the central institution. The University has directed its students to the study of the localities from which they have come, and stores in its stacks the facts which they glean. No one of the newer states of the country knows itself so well as Wisconsin, and if, as is so often the case, acquired knowledge seems merely to reveal the knowledge still necessary for real understanding, we have carefully developed plans to extend it still more widely and intensively.
Yet how insignificant any locality seems today, when practically all are plunged into the same calamity, when the resources of all are concentrated in one struggle. Races and breeds, nationalities and castes are merged together on the same battle-field. Their similarities of plight and object dominate their differences, the protective barriers each erected to preserve that distinctiveness so dear to human nature seem leveled, and history has become world history. Men thrown thus physically into the maelstrom find themselves intellectually also torn from their safe anchorages and adrift they know not where. What does the individual count for, what
1 Delivered as the annual address before the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, October 25, 1917.
Object Description
Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 1, number 2, December 1917 |
Article Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 1, number 2, December 1917 |
Language | English |
Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
Series | Wisconsin Magazine of History ; v. 1, no. 2 |
Format-Digital | xml |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
ISSN | 1943-7366 |
Identifier-Digital | vol01no020000 |
Description | This issue explores several journeys to Wisconsin, including the memoirs of two Norwegian immigrants and a survey of 19th century white settlement. |
Volume | 001 |
Issue | 2 |
Year | 1917-1918 |
Type | Text |
Description
Title | 121 |
Page Number | 121 |
Article Title | The frontier a world problem |
Author | Fish, Carl Russell, 1876-1932 |
Page type | Article home |
Format-Digital | jpeg |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
ISSN | 1943-7366 |
Identifier-Digital | vol01no020007 |
Description | The Frontier A World Problem: The great influx of white settlers into Wisconsin in the 19th century was one part of a larger story of frontier "conquest" by the United States. In this article, Carl Russell Fish explores the idea of the frontier as a place of both labor and capital in a variety of contexts around the world. Fish believes that the Wisconsin frontier experience cannot be fully understood without an understanding of frontiers in other countries. (21 pages) |
Volume | 001 |
Issue | 2 |
Year | 1917-1918 |
Subject | Frontier & pioneer life; |
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The Frontier a World Problem 1 by Carl Russell Fish Only by a study of local history can we hope really to understand the development of human society. The historian like the scientist must base his knowledge on what can be seen through a microscope. Wisconsin, from the time of its formation as a state, has realized this, and has steadily confirmed itself in the opinion. This institution, which it founded in the days of its youth and scant resources, it has supported with a liberality, public and private, growing as its wealth has grown. Of late years, a corps of local societies, city and county, have been forming about the central institution. The University has directed its students to the study of the localities from which they have come, and stores in its stacks the facts which they glean. No one of the newer states of the country knows itself so well as Wisconsin, and if, as is so often the case, acquired knowledge seems merely to reveal the knowledge still necessary for real understanding, we have carefully developed plans to extend it still more widely and intensively. Yet how insignificant any locality seems today, when practically all are plunged into the same calamity, when the resources of all are concentrated in one struggle. Races and breeds, nationalities and castes are merged together on the same battle-field. Their similarities of plight and object dominate their differences, the protective barriers each erected to preserve that distinctiveness so dear to human nature seem leveled, and history has become world history. Men thrown thus physically into the maelstrom find themselves intellectually also torn from their safe anchorages and adrift they know not where. What does the individual count for, what 1 Delivered as the annual address before the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, October 25, 1917. |
Type | Text |