Our history. our political institutions. our social aiid economic conditions. our wealth and power. our industrial growth and greatness. and every form and phase of our national life and history have been ably and exhaustively treated hy the very masters of literature in every language of the world. Though we have but little more than passed the first century of our existence. yet it is no exaggeration to say that this country is and for years has been the subject of keencr inquiry and profounder thought by the great minds of the world than nations with a thousand years of blood and crime behind them. This. sir. is the tribute paid to us by the learning and scholarship of the world. and we have but "to look at the statistics of immigration to learii that our country is the center of attraction for the common people in every land and clime. There is no country so distant and no people so ignorant that they do not know of this country. that they do not look to and lov e it and long to breathe its free air and embrace its glorious opportunities. Sir. a nation thus known and thus honored does not need to proclaim its preseiice in the world by the shouting of its captains and the thunder of its guns.
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