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爱德华·博克：爱德华·博克自传·补录 459
爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导
This is a really noteworth story--a profoundly touching story--of the Americanizing of an immigrant girl, who between babyhood and young womanhood leaps over a space which in all outward and humanizing essentials is far more important than the distance painfully traversed by her forefathers during the preceding thousand years. When we tend to grow disheartened over some of the developments of our American civilization, it is well worth while seeing what this same civilization holds for starved and noble souls who have elsewhere been denied what here we hold to be, as a matter of course, rights free to all--altho we do not, as we should do, make these rights accessible to all who are willing with resolute earnestness to strive for them. I most cordially commend this story.
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3538
定位：Additional excerpt 459 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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这是一个值得注意、非常动人的故事：一个移民女孩在美国化的过程中，从幼年到青年跨越的距离，比她的祖先一千年走过的路在外部和人性意义上都更重要。当我们对美国文明的一些发展感到灰心时，看看这个文明对饥饿而高贵的心灵意味着什么——他们在别处被剥夺了这里视为理所当然的权利，尽管我们还没有尽到责任，让所有愿意努力的人都能获得这些权利。我衷心推荐这个故事。核心是：美国给了移民改变命运的机会，但机会尚未完全公平开放；我们应既看到希望，也看到责任。
上下文
这是博克在书中推荐一篇关于移民女孩美国化的故事时写的评语。
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你身边有哪些人尚未获得你习以为常的机会？你能做什么让机会更开放？
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