39 produced its tendencies, its ideal, its evolution. The arteries, nerves and vessels of this great organism, are its rivers, lakes, seas and railways. Through them it lives and grows and prospers in a manner truly marvellous. It seems as if nature desired to be prodigal towards this land, placing in its bosom all the materials wherewith mankind has always established great civilizations.
Nature also favored it with mountains of iron and of coal, that is, with the materials which its mother, Eng.
land, used to elevate herself to the dignity of a nation, and of which Germany and Japan have availed themselves in order to astonish the world.
The change of front, the march of human society towards federation of the nations, was thus enabled to take place and find its beginning upon the continent of North America, Fulton initiating it with the steamship and Franklin with electricity.
And as alertness of perception and the spirit of international fraternity grow in proportion to the impulses of the human organism, which are the more potential according as the vessels and arteries can easily and rapidly conduct blood to the heart, by railway, steamship or telegraph, spiritual communication was established in North America, bringing in its wake the tendency toward fraternity; and this tendency is the soul that directs and conducts the definitive evolution of the United States. There is not a town in this great country which does not perceive the pulsations of the others and of the world at large, transmitted, as they are, by the telegraplı, which may be likened to the nerves of the human body.