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Standard "5.0 History," Indicator "EPD.5 …"
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Select two statements from John L. O’Sullivan (1839) that reflect the key components of Manifest Destiny.
America is destined for better deeds. . . . We have no interest in the scenes of antiquity [the ancient past] , only as lessons of avoidance of nearly all their examples. The expansive future is our arena, and for our history. . . . We are the nation of human progress, and who will . . . set limits to our onward march? . . . We point to the everlasting truth on the first page of our national declaration . . . The far-reaching, the boundless future will be the era of American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined to manifest to mankind . . . divine principles; to establish on earth the noblest temple . . . to the worship of the Most High —the Sacred and the True.