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ANTIQUES.(being an American)(Brief Article)(Column)
The Magazine Antiques
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July 1, 2000
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1920
The baffling process by which a transplanted European culture has been changed on this continent into something uniquely American eludes definition. The American character is the product of an interplay between inheritance and environment. That America was the offspring of Britain was acknowledged, but the roots of American culture and institutions can be traced back to ancient Greece, Rome, and the Holy ...
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