The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions
so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events cover 41. ______
a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the
expression of one intellectual and social movement; yet the historical process 42. ______
which culminates in the ascent of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency 43. ______
can be regarded as the outstanding example not only of the birth of a new
way of life but nationalism as a new way of life. The American Revolution 44. ______
represents the link between the seventeenth century, in which modern England
became conscious of itself, and the awakening of modern Europe in the 45. ______
end of the eighteenth century. It may seem strange that the march of history
should have to cross the Atlantic Ocean, but only in the North American 46. ______
colonies a struggle for civic liberty lead also to the foundation of a new 47. ______
nation. Here, in the popular rising for a "tyrannical" government, the fruits 48. ______
were more than the securing of a free constitution. They included the growth 49. ______
of a nation born in liberty by the will of the people, not from the roots
of common descent, a geographic entity, or the ambitions of king or dynasty.
With the American nation, in the first time, a nation was born, not in the 50. ______
dim past of history but before the eyes of the whole world.