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the short space of one century, have transformed this valley from a 

 savage wilderness into what it is to-day - - then may you find com- 

 pensation for the want of a past like yours by seeing with prophetic 

 eye a future world-power of which this region shall be the seat. If such 

 is to be the outcome of the institutions which we are now building up, 

 then may your present visit be a blessing both to your posterity and 

 ours by making that power one for good to all mankind. Your deliber- 

 ations will help to demonstrate to us and to the world at large that the 

 reign of law must supplant that of brute force in the relations of the 

 nations, just as it has supplanted it in the relations of individuals. 

 You will help to show that the war which science is now waging 

 against the sources of diseases, pain, and misery offers an even nobler 

 field for the exercise of heroic qualities than can that of battle. We 

 hope that when, after your all too fleeting sojourn in our midst, you 

 return to your own shores, you will long feel the influence of the new 

 air you have breathed in an infusion of increased vigor in pursuing 

 your varied labors. And if a new impetus is thus given to the great 

 intellectual movement of the past century, resulting not only in 

 promoting the unification of knowledge, but in widening its field 

 through new combinations of effort on the part of its votaries, the 

 projectors, organizers, and supporters of this Congress of Arts and 

 Science will be justified of their labors. 



