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The phrase Manifest Destiny was first used by the American journalist and diplomat
John Louis O'Sullivan, in an editorial supporting the annexation of Texas. The phrase
appeared in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic
Review. (Encarta) The phrase was later used by
expansionists in all political parties to justify the
acquisition
of California, and the Oregon Territory. By the end of the 19th century the
same phrase was being applied to the proposed annexation of various islands in
the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Manifest Destiny was what the United
States saw when it looked at Asia and the Far East.
Manifest Destiny has no end. It is perpetual and everlasting. Without Manifest Destiny the world would be flat and the earth would be the center of the solar system. Whether divinely ordained or not, expansion is inevitable and without limit. Yes, land is a finite commodity...on earth.
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