It will be a new frontier. The frontier's role is to strip us down to the essentials of life and survival, leaving behind layers of social mores so that individ

It will be a new frontier. The frontier's role is to strip us down to the essentials of life and survival, leaving behind layers of social mores so that individual, productive energy can flow without any other impediments than nature and what our mind can make of it. From "The Frontier in American History" (1921) [1] written by historian Frederick J. Turner. The first chapter was an essay published in 1893. > "The stubborn American environment is there with its imperious summons to accept its conditions; the inherited ways of doing things are also there; and yet, in spite of environment, and in spite of custom, each frontier did indeed furnish a new field of opportunity, a gate of escape from the bondage of the past; and freshness, and confidence, and scorn of older society, impatience of its restraints and its ideas, and indifference to its lessons, have accompanied the frontier. What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely." [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22994 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22994