The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.
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