the liberal path to growth only makes sense if you are an early developer, since you have no competitors--pace the United Kingdom in the eighteenth century and the United States in the nineteenth century. Yet in the contemporary world, development is almost always state led.

It is important to note here Trilling's contention, pace Donald Davie and others

Mann believes, pace Wallerstein, that there is still enough new land to conquer and enough demand to discover and invent, to allow for both extensive and intensive growth

The version that's in the book, I think, is a heck of a lot better, pace the terrible capitalization