Conception Quote by Herbert Croly

“The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.”

Herbert Croly

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Conception Democratic Economic Economic prosperity Institutions Land Promised land Prosperity Satisfied

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