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| | The Progressive Impulse |
 | | In the spirit of the Founding Fathers whose nationalism they so admired, progressive reformers, despite their differences, thought of themselves as the architects of a stable social order based on many of the principles that had guided their Federalist ancestors. |
 | | In 1915 as the progressive movement neared its peak, a young professor of government at New York University, Benjamin Parke DeWitt, published a book entitled The Progressive Movement, in which he catalogued the political and social reforms in the United States in the previous two decades. |
 | | Educated, articulate, and eager to apply their ideas for reforming society and politics, they held no monopoly on political gentility and could be found in equal numbers in the reform wings of both Republican and the Democratic parties. |
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