"The German-speaking countries have, of course, a different history from the English-speaking world, and this background greatly influenced Hayek’s thought. There is a tendency in the English-speaking world (as there was, and perhaps to some extent still is, a tendency among the French) to see their civilization as the societal conduit through which all human communities will eventually pass. The German-speaking countries also possessed this conception."
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Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Ch. 2. German and Viennese Intellectual Thought
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