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Embrace the shadow because there is no doubt that America has become a beacon of hope in the world. The crack in the Liberty Bell symbolizes that slavery, women rights, anti-Immigrants, and native people attitudes and policies have been part of the American psychological shadow. The question is whether the shadow will be embraced or repressed. History has shown when France, in the pursuit of a republic, thought reason alone would fulfill the goals of the Enlightenment without awareness of the irrational, the unconscious shadow, the result was unspeakable violence, terror, and the debasement of humanistic values.