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.)