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tives ... intimately connected with us by language, literature, 

 and habits of thought, have spontaneously arranged to take part. 

 . . . Here on the frontier between the two great English-speaking 

 nations of the world, who is there that does not inwardly feel that 

 anything which conduces to an intimacy between representatives 

 of two countries, both of them actively engaged in the pursuit of 

 science, may also, through such an intimacy, react on the affairs of 

 daily life, and aid in preserving those cordial relations that have 

 now for so many years existed between the great American Republic 

 and the British Islands, with which her early foundations are indis- 

 solubly connected?" President Evans then referred very grace- 

 fully to the recent incident of the " log of the Mayflower " as " an 

 interchange of courtesies which has excited the warmest feelings of 

 approbation oh both sides of the Atlantic — the return to its proper 

 custodians of one of the most interesting of the relics of the Pilgrim 

 Fathers " ; and added the hope that this circumstance might be 

 both an augury and a testimony of mutual regard and esteem be- 

 tween the nations. 



This friendly and courteous tone toward Americans was indeed 

 a marked and truly pleasing feature throughout the entire series of 

 meetings; but, at the same time, no one could be misled. It was 

 the tone of well-disposed neighbors, desiring to live in kind relations 

 with us — the two peoples working out their problems and their des- 

 tiny side by side, but separate. On the other hand, very striking 

 and impressive were the tokens of Canadian national feeling, and 

 Canadian love and loyalty to the empire and to the Queen. Every 

 allusion to the sovereign, to the new ideal of the " Greater Britain," 

 to the closer relationship between the mother land and the world- 

 wide colonies, was received with outbursts of applause that betokened 

 intense patriotic sentiment. The writer was much confirmed in the 

 view, gained in previous visits to that region, that our people gen- 

 erally have no idea of the Canadians — of their resources and their 

 spirit, of their national feeling and national pride, of their attach- 

 ment to the empire of which they are a part. Joined to these 

 there is more or less indicated a radical distrust of our methods and 

 ideas, as compared with their own. Union or absorption with " the 

 States" is as far as possible from the Canadian heart; and to one 

 who considers impartially, it seems that a very long time must pass, 

 and great changes be wrought in both countries, ere such an event 

 can be other than a dream. 



Nor is this a matter for regret; both peoples have their problems 

 to solve and their work to accomplish; both have free institutions; 

 both have energy, courage, and faith in themselves and their mission. 

 As friends and brothers, each for itself, they can best develop this 



