MODERN AGE A Quarterly Review Intercollegiate Studies Institute 3901 Centerville Road Wilmington, DE 19807-1938 Change Service Requested "D id their sacred self-image enjoin the Founders to practice an aggressive ideological statecraft based on pride, ideology, and militancy, as if an echo of Cromwell's Calvinist Commonwealth or foretaste of the Jacobin French Revolution? Not at all. Rather, their sacred self-image enjoined them to practice a 'new diplomacy' based on humility, prudence, law, and reciprocity. The Founders clung to the view that their nation was special not because of anything it was doing in other lands but because of what it was becoming at home." -From "Promised Land: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Founding Era," by Walter A. McDougall (page 19) Address changes may be sent to update@isi.org