此外,人们相信美国人以某种方式发现了对人类永恒难题的最终答案,现在准备在地球上建立天堂,这是一种妄想,值得与关于圣杯和青年源的寓言旁边排名。 “我们可能夸耀我们是一个人,被选中的人:他{Adams}警告说,”我们甚至可以感谢上帝,我们不像其他男人,但是毕竟,这只是奉承,妄想,是法利赛人的自我屈服。
(Moreover, the very belief that Americans had somehow discovered the ultimate answer to mankind's eternal quandaries and were now poised to establish heaven on earth was a delusion that deserved to be ranked alongside the fables about the Holy Grail and the fountain of youth. "We may boast that we are one, the chosen people,: he {Adams} warned, " and we may even thank God that we are not like other men, but, after all, it would be but flattery, delusion, the self-deceit of the Pharisee.)