Mises Daily
Author:
Garet Garrett
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[This article is excerpted from The American Story by Garet Garrett, 1955] For 125 years the American omen was splendid in isolation. What it signified was nothing already known. It was not a continuation of anything. It came from nowhere. It was original, improbably born, improbably nurtured, and did not belong to this world; deriving its