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By James Carroll | Monday, October 12, 2009 | The Boston Globe

“…Christopher Columbus occupies a place of primacy in the American pantheon, yet little is known about his driving motivation – and its significance for the challenge that America faces today. Columbus, as every American schoolchild knows, was on the make for gold, spices, commercial routes to ‘India’, whatever that was. All true. But none of that touches what mattered most to the man himself (as I learned from the historian Carol Delaney) – which was a spiritual purpose….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/12/columbus_and_the_american_problem/