George Washington and Ben Franklin. Lewis and Clarke and young Abe Lincoln. Walter Reed and Wright brothers. and the thousands and millions of humble people of the steerageall were pioneers who realized "the substance of things hoped for. the evidence of things not seen." A great Spaniard who became a great American. George Santayana. wrote: "Columbus found a world and had no chart. Save one that faith deciphered in the skies. To trust the souls Invincible surmise Was all hi- science and his only art." And another great American. Carl Sandburg. the son of an emigrant from Sweden. wrote: "The Republic Is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream." I think that those two quotations contain the very essence of our American faith. We "trust the souls invincible surmise." We know in our hearts that "nothing happens unless first a dream." War is generally conceded to be the most thoroughly materialistic of the nonessential activities of man.
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