【正文】 hope to prosper only as his own munity prospered and his munity ran from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada down to Mexico. If the land was settled, with towns and highways and accessible markets, he could better himself. He saw his fate in terms of the nation’s own destiny. As its horizons expanded, so did his. He had, in other words, an acute dollarsand centsstake in the continued growth and development of his country. 10. And that, perhaps, is where the contrast between Grant and Lee bees most striking. The Virginia aristocrat, inevitably, saw himself in relation to his own region. He lived in a static society which could endure almost anything except change. Instinctively, his first loyalty would go to the locality in which that society existed. He would fight to the limit of endurance to defend it, because in defending it he was defending everything that gave his own life its deepest meaning. 11. The Westerner, on the other hand, would fight with an equal tenacity for the broader concept of society. He fought so because everything he lived by was tied to growth, expansion, and a constantly widening horizon. What he lived by would survive or fall with the nation itself. He could not possibly stand by unmoved in the face of an attempt to destroy the Union. He would bat it with everything he had, because he could only see it as an effort to cut the ground out from under his feet. 12. So Grant and Lee were in plete contrast, representing two diametrically opposed elements in American life. Grant was the modern man emerging。新編英語教程6上(Unit 912 Text I) ants05Unit Nine Text I A Red Light for Scofflaws Frank Trippett1. Lawandorder is the longestrunning and probably the bestloved political issue in . history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society. Indeed, there are moments today—amid outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy—when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to mitting supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, Riesman says, the ethic of . society is in danger of being this: You39。 to them it could look for the higher values of thought, of conduct, of personal deportment to give it strength and virtue. 6. Lee embodied the noblest elements of this aristocratic ideal. Through him, the landed nobility justified itself. For four years, the Southern states had fought a desperate war to uphold the ideals for which Lee stood. In the end, it almost seemed as if the Confederacy fought for Lee。s new statistical category—freeway traffic violence: 1) Driver flashes highbeam lights at car that cut in front of him, whose occupants then hurl a beer can at his windshield, kick out his tail lights, slug him eight stitches39。 worth. 2) Dumptruck driver annoyed by delay batters trunk of stalled car ahead and its driver with steel bolt. 3) Hurrying driver of 18wheel truck deliberately rearends car whose driver was trying to stay within 55 . limit. The Houston Freeway Syndrome has fortunately not spread everywhere. But the question is: Will it?8. Americans are used to thinking that lawandorder is threatened mainly by stereotypical violent crime. When the foundations of . law have actually been shaken, however, it has always been because ordinary lawabiding citizens took to skirting the law. Major instance: Prohibition. Recalls Donald Barr Chidsey in On and Off the Wagon: Lawbreaking proved to be not painful, not even unfortable, but, in a mild and perfectly safe way, exhilarating. People wiped out Prohibition at last not only because of the alcohol issue but because scofflawry was seriously undermining the authority and legitimacy of government. Ironically, today39。 men who lived not to gain advantage for themselves, but to meet the solemn obligations which had been laid on them by the very fact that they were privileged. From them the country would get its leadership。re a fool if you obey the rules.2. Nothing could be more obvious than the evidence supporting Riesman. Scofflaws abound in amazing variety. The graffitiprone turn public surfaces into visual rubbish. Bicyclists often ride as though twowheeled vehicles are exempt from all traffic laws. Litterbugs convert their munities into trash dumps. Widespread flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of highdecibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beersoaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight to pass around a joint. The flagrant use of cocaine is a festering scandal in middleand upperclass life. And then there are (hello, Everybody!) the jaywalkers.3. The dangers of scofflaw