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Modesty is a great virtue when dealing with immodest challenges, like War, and Philosophy. Americans are modest; Pragmatism, the homegrown American philosophy is modest; Metaphysics, European, is not.
However, modesty must not be failure to act. The Swiss fail to act. Americans do not fail to act.
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Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. Revelation 1:19
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