It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.
— Dmitri Mendeleev Modern

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Observations during his visit to the United States, critique of American society and politics, published in his work 'To the Cognition of Russia'.

Date / Period

1906

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