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representing, and to my own country. Dr. Gonzales 

 after dinner rose and made a very beautiful and elo- 

 quent address, in which he spoke gratefully of the 

 generosity of Mr. Carnegie, whose health he proposed, 

 as well as that of his representative. He alluded to the 

 bonds of sincere amity which exist between Argentina 

 and the great Republic of the North, from which the 

 guest of the evening had come. It was a pleasure for 

 the writer to acknowledge with heartfelt gratitude 

 the many distinguished courtesies which had been 

 extended to him during his brief stay in the country, 

 and his appreciation of the hospitality which he had 

 received, destined to leave an indelible impression upon 

 his memory, and cause him always to think of the 

 people of Argentina as his friends. The fact that the 

 constitution of Argentina is identical with that of the 

 United States, that its government is founded upon 

 the same principles which were enunciated by those 

 who framed the organic law of the Republic of the 

 North, was alluded to; and on behalf of the scientific 

 men and educators of my own land, I ventured to 

 express my appreciation of what I had observed of 

 the efforts which are being made by men of learning 

 and of science in the great Republic of the South to 

 advance knowledge, to train men for the highest useful- 

 ness, and to hasten the coming of that good time 

 foretold by the seer, when ' swords shall be beaten 

 into ploughshares and spears converted into pruning- 

 hooks. ' As to the relations which subsist between 

 the two republics, I ventured to express the confident 

 belief that these would forever be relations of fraternity 

 and of mutual helpfulness. ' We of the North and you 

 of the South are all of us Americans, and though the 

 Pole-star lights our northern sky, and the Southern 

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