Select the correct text in the passage. Which two sentences support the claim that Americans have greater equality than people in other countries?
adapted from "What is an American?" in Letters from an American Farmer
by J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur
I wish I could be acquainted with the feelings and thoughts which must agitate the heart and present themselves to the mind of an
enlightened Englishman, when he first lands on this continent. He must greatly rejoice that he lived at a time to see this fair country
discovered and settled; he must necessarily feel a share of national pride, when he views the chain of settlements which embellishes these
extended shores. When he says to himself, this is the work of my countrymen, who, when convulsed by factions, afflicted by a variety of
miseries and wants, restless and impatient, took refuge here. They brought along with them their national genius, to which they principally
owe what liberty they enjoy, and what substance they possess.
Here he sees the industry of his native country displayed in a new manner, and traces in their works the embryos of all the arts, sciences, and
ingenuity which flourish in Europe.
Here he beholds fair cities, substantial villages, extensive fields, an immense country filled with decent houses, good roads, orchards,
meadows, and bridges, where an hundred years ago all was wild, woody and uncultivated!
What a train of pleasing ideas this fair spectacle must suggest; it is a prospect which must inspire a good citizen with the most heartfelt
pleasure.
The difficulty consists in the manner of viewing so extensive a scene. He is arrived on a new continent; a modern society offers itself to his
contemplation, different from what he had hitherto seen. It is not composed, as in Europe, of great lords who possess everything and of a herd
of people who have nothing. Here are no aristocratical families, no courts, no kings, no bishops, no ecclesiastical dominion, no invisible power
giving to a few a very visible one; no great manufacturers employing thousands, no great refinements of luxury. The rich and the poor are not
so far removed from each other as they are in Europe. Some few towns excepted, we are all tillers of the earth, from Nova Scotia to West
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