De Crevecoeur

This guy reminded me a lot of John Smith. He has a vision, and it’s a big one. I admire him for the fact that he thought it was a positive thing that the United States was a melting pot.  With English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swedish, and so on, he thought of this as a new nationality.  He wanted something new with the new world, and he seemed to get what he wanted. He wrote, “We have no princes, for whom we toil, starve, and bleed; we are the most perfect society now existing in the world. Here man is free as he ought to be; nor is this pleasing equality so transitory as many others are” (311).  I like that he was so excited about the new world, and the direction it was going, but I also think that he thought it was too perfect.  This world will never have a perfect place till Jesus comes back, but I think he thought it was the closest thing we could get to perfect.