在欧洲中心主义居于主导地位的启蒙时代,布丰等人阐发的“美洲退化论”可谓独树一帜,影响广泛。这对宣称承担着上帝赋予之特殊使命的美国人来说,简直就是一种蔑视或侮辱。领导这个新国家的开国先辈自然不会对这种“荒唐”理论的存在熟视无睹,任其四处传播,必然愤而反击,一洗布丰等人强加给美洲大陆的不实之词。他们对这种理论反驳的结果无疑加强了由移民组成的这个新国家的凝聚力,让美国人对它的发展前景充满足够的自 In the era of Enlightenment in which Eurocentrism dominates, the theory of American degeneration demonstrated by Boufun et al. Can be described as unique and influential. This is an act of contempt or insult to Americans who claim to have assumed the special mission God has given them. The founding fathers who led the new country naturally will not turn a blind eye to the existence of this “absurd” theory and will inevitably come back in anger and counterattack, a false statement imposed on the continent by Buffon and others. The result of their refutation of this theory undoubtedly strengthens the cohesion of this new nation of immigrants and gives the Americans sufficient self-development for its prospects