No nation has been as uneasy in its view of travel as America

“Perhaps no nation has been as uneasy in its view of travel as America. The one Western country that has always held expatriation to be something of a misdemeanor, if not an actual offense to patriotism or a form of social betrayal, it has never freed itself of the sense of guilt apparently rooted in a society which originated in deracination and grew into its modern dimensions through incessant migration and restlessness.”
–Morton Dauwen Zabel, intro to Henry James The Art of Travel (1958)

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