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In his classic novel, The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a la
In his classic novel, The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a la
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In his classic novel, The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me.’?" she asks. He’s astonished she can’t see them. "Where! Why everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.
Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life for the American is always becoming, never being."
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作家詹姆斯?费尼莫尔?库柏在他的经典作品《拓荒者》中,安排让主人公——一位房产商——领着他的表妹去游览一座他正在建造中的新城市。他滔滔不绝地描绘着宽阔的街道、一排排的房屋和人气旺盛的都市。可是他的表妹环顾四周,一脸茫然状,因其四处触目所见,只是树木森林罢了。表妹不禁问道:“你带我看的美景造化都在哪儿呢?”房产商感到奇怪,为什么表妹对眼前之物视而不见呢?因此他诧异地答道:“在哪儿?岂不是到处都是!”在房产商看来,实物虽还未盖造起来,但构思早已烂熟于胸。因此对他来说,一切井然具体,仿佛都已建成竣工似的。 在这里,库柏向读者展示了美国人的一种思维特征:前瞻性。这是一种以有利未来的解度看待眼前事物发展的能力,也是一种超脱过去束缚、情系未来的自由。正如阿尔伯特?爱因斯坦昔日所言:“对美国人来说,生活总是进取,而非守成。”
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