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colossal structures erected for educational purposes, richly supplied with 

 libraries and apparatus, and crowded with students. I might follow 

 along the track of railways reaching on the north from tide water at 

 San Francisco to Washington Territory; on the south, to Texas and 

 the lower Mississippi. I might fancy ocean steamers, built upon plans 

 now unknown, and making time now unthought of, running semi-weekly 

 to China, Japan, Australia, the South American, and Mexican ports. 

 This much and more 1 might fancy. 



I do not say this will happen within the next quarter of a centuiy, for 

 no one can fathom the depth of the future; but it will argue but little 

 for California enterprise, if we allow such slow plodding people as the 

 Italians, the Egyptians, and the English to outstrip us on the great 

 march of human progress. 



Believe me, much of this will be accomplished within the lifetime of 

 many who are now present. Here shall be the seat of Empire. By 

 the ordinance of God and the harmony of nature man can go westward 

 no further. Everything that enterprise can inspire or genius invent, 

 will center here. Art and science, and poetry and eloquence, sisters of 

 thought and offspring of genius, will cluster together in this favored 

 land. 



Men distinguished in every countiy, and whose names belong to man- 

 kind, will come here to be schooled in the marvels of the new West,. as 

 they once went to Athens and to Rome. 



Here will be the seat of learning. The grandeur of the scenery will 

 attract to these shores the finest painters of all countries. The old 

 masters, so long the study of students in the East, will lose their chief 

 attractions in the presence of such sublime models as the Yosemite, the 

 Sierra Nevada, and the mountain-walled valleys of the Coast liange. 



While these varied attractions lend enchantments to all other pursuits, 

 must agriculture, in the presence of such a climate, beneath such a sky, 

 with such a soil, follow or lead in the grand march to the empire of 

 success? 



Ceres shall be the Queen of California; clothed in garments of labor, 

 hardy with toil, she shall wear the crown. This shall be her empire; 

 here her throne with no divided sovereignty nor rebellious subjects. 

 She shall be the chief among her sisters, for her throne is peace — her 

 victory plenty. 



