Other countries have equal fertility. equal mineral wealth. equal or better access to the sea and to adjacent lands. Our amalgam cannot be said to be a better mixture of blood than that of other races. Our immigrant forefathers were not drawn predominantly from the producing intellectuals of their native lands. The rest of the worlds recent contributions to electronIcs. atomic physics. economics. and philosophy forbids us to boast that our thinkers have an intellectual capacity beyond that of the thinkers in other nations. We have had. however. for our earliest beginnings in the highest degree something others lack. or. at best. possess in a relatively undeveloped form: a system of free enterprise and a classless society.
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Generalization about the intellectual capacity of immigrant forefathers.