The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858Author: VariousRelease Date: December 11, 2003 [eBook #10435] [Date last updated: July 2, 2005]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 12,OCTOBER, 1858***E-text prepared by Joshua Hutchinson, Keith M. Eckrich, and Project Gutenberg Distributed ProofreadersTHE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.VOL. II.—OCTOBER, 1858.—NO. XII.THE NEW WORLD AND THE NEW MAN.Half a dozen rivulets leap down the western declivity of the Rocky Mountains, and unite; four thousand miles away themighty Missouri debouches into the Mexican Gulf as the result of that junction. Did the rivulets propose or plan theriver? Not at all; but they knew, each, its private need to find a lower level; the universal law they obeyedaccomplished the rest. So is it with the great human streams. Mighty beginnings do not lie in the minds of thebeginners. History is a perpetual surprise, ever developing results of which men were the agents without being theexpectants. Individual actors, with respect to the master claim of ...