To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
The happy ending is our national belief.
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