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In is classic novel，“The Pioneers”，James FenimoreCooper has his hero, a 1and developer，take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building．He describes the broad streets，rows of houses，a teeming metropo1is．But his cousin 1ooks around bewildere

D、All she sees is a forest．“where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me ”She asks．He’s astonished she can’t see them．“Where! Why everywhere，"he replies．For though they are not yet built on earth，he has built them in his mind，and they are as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finishe
D、Cooper was i11ustrating a distinctlyAmerican trait，future-mindedness：the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future；the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come．AsAlbertEinstein once said，“Life for theAmerican is always becoming，never being．”