Thursday, September 24, 2009

will one day cause great changes in the world

“Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry which began long since in the East; they will finish the great circle.”

--Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, “What is an American?”, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782

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