America

is a country whose land is more favorable than any other to nourishing successful seeds of liberty  (i.e. The immense content, the crags, mountains, plains, deserts, and forests).

Nothing is more favorable to nourishing successful seeds of liberty in Americans than the land they inhabit. Spread far and wide in an immense continent, free as the nature that surrounds them, among the crags and the mountains, the vast plains and the deserts, at the edge of forests where all is still wild, where nothing reminds them of servitude or man's tyranny, they encounter the lessons of liberty and independence in all the physical objects around them.JOSEPH MANDRILLON (1743-1794) The American Spectator 1784

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