The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
Bio: Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet PC was an English jurist best known for his History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, written with F.W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a Cambridge Apostle.