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Question SA-15. Here is the text reference (p. 166/5):

Deprived like an orphan of deep traditions which would give it direction, this nation has not learned how to move from the inspired ideals of the past to a high and disinterested conception of the future. They live for the immediate reality, for the present, and because of that they subordinate all their activity to the selfishness of personal and collective well-being. Prodigious in their wealth, the North Americans have been able to acquire the satisfaction and vanity of sumptuous magnificence; but they have not been able to acquire the carefully selected note of good taste.