In America, progress was possible, and the wrongs committed against the Indians, the wildlife, the land itself, could be explained away in terms of the rational control of environment necessary for the building of a New Jerusalem.

在美国，进步是可能的，对印第安人， 野生动物，及土地本身所犯下的错误，都可以用为建设一个新耶路撒冷所必须的 对环境的理性控制来解释。