“... to meet the sages of the East. In Sri Lanka, the most influential of these spiritual tourists was Henry Steel Olcott, a former Union Army colonel and theosophist from New Jersey whose profile appears on Sri Lankan stamps and who is claimed as one of the ‘heroes of independence’. After the American Civil War, Olcott grew disgusted by what he saw as the ...”

“... expanding boundary. Grandin quotes a letter Clare Boothe Luce sent in the 1940s to her husband, Henry, the publisher of Time, in which she wrote that, with the end of the country’s territorial expansion, America could survive as a nation only by preserving its ‘racial and cultural homogeneity’ with ‘strict barriers against further immigrations of ...”