A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

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What the Market Revolution was, in so many ways, was an engine, a tremendous Charles Sellers has written a famous book on this it was a tremendous engine for what became arguably the most prevalent idea of the entire nineteenth century in America, and that's the notion of progress.

在很大层面上,市场革命,就是一个巨大的发动机,查尔斯·塞勒斯,曾经为此写过一部书,市场这个巨大的发动机,它带来了十九世纪最流行且有争议的看法,即,对进步的观念

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