Society, Manners and Politics in the United States - Being a Series of Letters on North America #246564

The connecting of the two civilizations is certainly the broadest subject that can occupy the human mind; it is, in the eyes of the friend of man, an event of all others most big with hope. It embraces, politically, the association of all peoples, the balance of the world, of which the balance of Europe is only a part; in religion, the whole law of the human family, the true catholicism morally, the most harmonious reciprocal action of the two opposite natures, which divide each race, each sex, each people, and each family, and which are typified in the Bible by Cain and Abel; intellectually, the complete encyclopaedia and the universal language; industrially, a definite plan for developing the resources of the globe. In our time this question is no longer merely speculative it is now something more than merely food for the dreams of philosophers it Should be the subject of the medita tions of statesmen.