In a new country, peopled in two hundred and fifty years by immigrants from the Old World and their descendants, the process of Americanization is not limited by any hard and fast rules as to time and generations, but is altogether a matter of individual and race temperament.
Lodge discusses the fluid nature of Americanization, emphasizing individual and racial temperament over strict generational rules.
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So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.
When the future historian traces Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary career he will find these embodied ideals planted like milestones along the road over which he marched.