In Chapter One, Experiment or Destiny, Arthur M. Schlesinger is trying to solve the dilemma of whether the events that happened in America during the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century were the consequences of an experiment, trying to follow the example of the Republic of Rome, or whether destiny, fate that God decided to give this continent, America. It is clearly stated that no one knew exactly what America really was! Maybe, according to Schlesinger, …showed first 75 words of 405 total…

…showed last 75 words of 405 total…of destiny was the most germane one and the most convincible and reasonable. (Schlesinger 15) "So the welfare between realism and messianism, between experiment and destiny, continued to our own day" (Schlesinger 19) expressed the author of The Cycles of American History, in order to give us the last conclusion that even though there has been a long struggle between these two theories, they still remain competitive and might still be not lucid for a long time!