“We
Americans are the peculiar chosen people — the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the
liberties of the world. God has predestined, mankind expects, great things from
our race, and great things we feel in our souls. The rest of the world must
soon be in our rear. We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent
on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in this New
World that is ours.” -- Herman Melville, from
White Jacket
Yeah, but Melville is a dead
white dude and not worthy of reading.
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