7 way, human society, as an organism, feels all impressions or changes taking place among the individual members of the human family. world soul, a composite of all souls and minds and consciences, is in process of formation. It is the great, supreme result of discoveries and of increased facilities for communication. This process of evolution had its birth in the discovery of America, and has developed with great energy, particularly in the newly discovered land of North America, itself, because the United States has been the greatest contributor to this wonderful human fellowship When the genius of Fulton applied steam to navigation, and Franklin, with his own hands, caught the thunderbolts of Jupiter, then it was that the arteries, nerves, vessels and cells of the organism of humanity were created. The United States, therefore, are entitled to leadership in the domain of modern progress. It is their mission, and no one can dispute it. May they inspire us with courage by illuminating the path that leads to the grand goal of universal brotherhood. The locomotive also extended and widened the social current. Men, things, ideas, books, all found means of rapid transportation. Altho the English were the first to stretch the rails upon the surface of the earth, the United States applied them upon a vast scale. While the English were doubting and vacillating, and even cursing the invention, the Americans devoted themselves to perfecting it and opening large railways. Within a few years in the United States mountains were cleft and entire forests cut through to give passage to the locomo