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In his classic novel, The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land d
In his classic novel, The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land d
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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 distinctive 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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詹姆斯.菲尼摩尔.库珀在其经典小说《开拓者》中,叙述主人公——一个土地开发商,带着自己的表妹参观正在由他承建的城市。他描述了宽阔的街道、林立的房屋和热闹的都市。可是他的表妹疑惑不解,四处张望,因为她所见到的只有一片森林。“你打算让我看的那些美景和改造了的地方在哪里呢?”她问道。开发商对她竟然看不见这些东西感到很惊讶,“哪里?到处都是呀,”他回答说。因为纵然还未把这些东西建在地上,他却早已在心里把它们建好了。对他来说,它们就好比是已经竣工了的建筑那样具体、那样真实。库珀是在阐明美国人一种显著的性格,即着眼于未来:能够从未来的角度看待现在;自由自在,不为过去所羁绊,而对未来寄托了更多的感情。正如阿尔伯特-爱因斯坦曾经说过的:“对美国人来说,生活总是不断变化,而并非一成不变的。”
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