11.

PROGRESS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT

God has not been preparing the

English speaking and Teutonic

peoples for a thousand years for

nothing.... He has given us the

spirit of progress to overwhelm the

forces of reaction throughout the

earth. He has made us adept in

government that we may administer

government among savage and senile

people.... And of all our race He

has marked the American people as

His chosen nation to finally lead in

the redemption of the world.

—SENATOR ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, 1900^1

Americans see history as a straight

line and themselves standing at the

cutting edge of it as representatives

for all mankind.

—FRANCES FITZGERALD^2

The study of economic growth is too