Mark Twain famously held the Scottish novelist Walter Scott responsible for the US Civil War. In the nineteenth century, America was part of a movement toward "liberty, humanity, and progress" (33). Then, writes Twain, "comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress, and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government"
A) Movement toward
B) Then
C) In the nineteenth century
D) Writes Twain