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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: they furnish examples rather than lessons to the world. The same
observation applies to the mechanical arts. In America, the
inventions of Europe are adopted with sagacity; they are
perfected, and adapted with admirable skill to the wants of the
country. Manufactures exist, but the science of manufacture is
not cultivated; and they have good workmen, but very few
inventors. Fulton was obliged to proffer his services to foreign
nations for a long time before he was able to devote them to his
own country.
[Footnote h: [This cannot be said with truth of the country of
Kent, Story, and Wheaton.]]
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