It was the natural issue of their interests, their occupations, and their manner of life.

They felt kindly towards one another and communicated freely with one another because they were not divided by radical differences in class, standards, point of view, and wealth.

The social aspect of their democracy may, in fact, be compared to the sense of good-fellowship which pervades the rooms of a properly constituted club.
Their community of feeling and their ease of communication had come about as the result of pioneer life in a self-governing community.

The Western Americans were confronted by a gigantic task of overwhelming practical importance,--the task of subduing to the needs of complicated and civilized society a rich but virgin wilderness.

This task was one which united a desirable social purpose with a profitable individual interest.