Applause.] Ve go forth with the plowshare and the pruning hook. with the Bible and the spelling book. From the jungle and from the hilltops will float the banner of freedom over countless schoolhouses. we go to lift up cellar hatchways and let out fetid poisons and miasmatic vapors. we go forth not to pillage temples. but to erect them. not to stifle liberty. but to give nobler ideals of liberty. not to forge fetters. but to break them. History finds man first in Asia. from which the human family. have emigrated to the westward until they have circled the globe. and today the new civilization clasps hands at Manila with the ancient. Mother Asia. we stand at your threshold. In a far. immemorial yore We left thee. great mother of nations. and now we return to your door.
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