“We doubt not the destiny of our country — that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”

—  Margaret Fuller

"American Facts" in Life Without and Life Within (1860) edited by Arthur Buckminster Fuller, p. 108.

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