The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

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From Goethe:

Here or nowhere is America

and

America, thou hast it better

Than our continent, the old one.

P. 194

And man was now again man; many noble beings

Planted eagerly the seed of truth.

Far on Philadelphia’s shores there glowed

A milder dawn.

P. 274

How the times have changed! Who could ever have believed it?

Civil equality is ennobling the French....