As a result, since the time of Walt Whitman we found ourselves being bankrupts that still bragging to be bankers, moralists proud to be hypocrites, judges devoted to petty issues of “political correctness” instead of the Supreme Law of the Land, leaders proclaiming own immature actions as a responsible leadership, arts becoming useless, and shamelessly turned into portraying sexual deviations... Is this a “masterpiece” we intend to passe to “further, spheres...” ourselves? No, this is not!
Lucky we are! We always have the “divine true sketch” before our eyes, and, therefore, we all have a never exhausted opportunity to return to original principals of “the architects of These States”. We just need to look at the “sketch” again and strongly remind ourselves who we are, and what we do, or rather what we originally were ordered to do on the Historic Stage.
On the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States “Eagle displayed, on the Summit of a Doric Column“, and “the Shield is born on the breast of an American Eagle without any other supporters, to denote that the United States of America ought to rely on their own Virtue". This is the key Principle for defining the Nation’s Mission on the Historic Stage and identifying National Character being able of accomplishing that Mission.
The Doric order was the simplest and sturdiest of all three orders of the ancient Greek architecture. It directly points out to the Golden Age, that is the ultimate dream of everlasting peace, prosperity, and joy for people on the earth. However, the Golden Age is not just one of those utopist dreams that may never come true. The Golden age is the historic precedent. It had happened once in the real life and therefore, can and must happen again.
The true historic existence of the Golden Age is described by Greek poet Hesiod, and later confirmed by great Greek philosophers Plato, and Greek poet Ovid.
Hesiod tells of "A golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Kronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil: miserable age rested not on them . . . The fruitful earth unforced bare them fruit abundantly and without stint. They dwelt in ease and peace upon their lands with many good things."
Similarly writes Ovid in the sixth book of his Metamorphoses: "In the beginning was the Golden Age, when men of their own accord, without threat of punishment, without laws, maintained good faith and did what was right. . . . The earth itself, without compulsion, untouched by the hoe, unfurrowed by any share, produced all things spontaneously. . . . It was a season of everlasting spring."
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Works and Days Hesiod divided time into five ages:--the Golden age, ruled by Cronos,"these days are a great blessing to men on earth" when people lived extremely long lives "without sorrow of heart"; the Silver age, ruled by Zeus; the Bronze age, an epoch of war; the Heroic age, the time of the Trojan war; and lastly the Iron age, the corrupt present. The idea of a Golden Age has had a profound impact on the western thought. There is no doubt that the Golden Age was a realistic dream on minds of “the architects of These States ” too.
The most eloquent part of the Great Seal of the United States leading to the aspirations of the Golden Age is three Latin mottos:
“E pluribus unum” (Out of many one),
“Annuit coeptis" (He has favored all our undertakings), and "
Novus ordo seclorum" (New order of ages). These three mottos precisely define the Nation’s Historic Mission on the Historic Stage: to always strive for forming the future Golden Age, and identify key property of National Character necessary for forming the Golden Age. (
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These mottos directly correlate to the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States that orders “to form a more perfect Union”. However, the amazing thing is that all these profound philosophical concepts are present and naturally involved in every day life of all American people. There is no man, woman, or even child in the United States who is deprived from possessing them. Moreover, all these ideas are an integral part of the “exchange of values” on the Market Place, and the “blood circulation” of the Nation.
There is no American who does not have this “divine true sketch” of “useful Arts” in his possession. It is always available for checking the road map to the future of the Nation - the Golden Age. It always reminds the true Historic Mission of the Nation - to set a model of the Golden Age for the rest of the entire World. It points out to a reliance on “own Virtue” by National Character necessary "to form a more perfect Union” with everlasting peace, prosperity and joy for ourselves and our Posterity.