If we were to select the most intelligent imaginative energetic and emotionally stable third of mankind all races would be present.
The higher American patriotism on the other hand combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact no matter how suspect is superior to any imaginative exercise no matter how true.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous for them everything is possible.