Other Nations
Some scholars argue that other nations have also demonstrated exceptionalism in terms of systematically engaging in what they considered benevolent enterprises, such as Britain at the height of the British Empire, as well as the Communist state in Russia, and France in the wake of the French Revolution.
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“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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