{The Coming-of-Age of America [continued]}[6th January 1976]

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Times change: other powers will arise to shape this culture, even after America. No-one can say for how long the Americans will remain its guardians, nor even what 'it' will eventually come to mean. The shape of the World is changing, and it is a mark of America's new maturity that it would now for the first time be possible to suggest to her that by the time of her quarter-millennium in the year two thousand and twenty six, A.D., by the consent of her people, the United States of America as a sole sovereign entity may no longer exist.

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