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But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
