美国神话的问题在于这一完美个体自由的田园牧歌，这自然的状态，无法在一个高度组织的银行、法庭、商业公司和立法机关的国家中存在。
The problem with the American myth is that this rural idyll of perfect individual liberty, this state of nature, as it were, cannot possibly be maintained in a highly organized state of banks, courts, business corporations, and legislatures.