The New England Township Before the Revolution: Tocqueville's American Pastoral
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Abstract
History, American history, the stuff you read about in books and study in school, had made its way out to tranquil, untrafficked Old Rimrock, New Jersey, to countryside where it had not put in an appearance that was notable since Washington's army twice wintered in the highlands adjacent to Morristown. History, which had made no drastic impingement on the daily life of the local populace since the Revolutionary Wars wended its way back out to these cloistered hills. Philip Roth, American Pastoral , p. 87 One had the impression of a process of ceaseless gradation.… The last word never seemed to be able to be uttered, for every end was a beginning, every last result the first of a new opening. Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities The New England township was, from its inception, imbued with a sacred quality. In its founding lay the promise of a new society. Unfettered by the religious or political tyranny of the Old World, it would nurture a spirit of intense community loyalties through active neighborly participation, and hold at bay the disorderliness characteristic of imperfect societies. The limitations of the past would not cast a shadow on hopes for an abundant spiritual and material future. Nothing from the outside world would be permitted to destroy its tranquillity. Neither an oppressive religion, nor the king's arbitrary powers, nor the hostile savages in the countryside surrounding it would deter it from its course.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".