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of our own ])oo])lt'. but of liuuiauily :i( larii'c; as you nicct the uuMi 

 wlio. in tlic shoi't s]')ac(> yf one century, have Iransfonued this vaUey 

 from a savage wilderness into what it is to-day, then may you find 

 compensation for the want of a past like yours by seeino- with 

 })rophetic eye a future world power of which this region shall be the 

 seat. If such is to be the outcome of the institutions \Yhich we aiv 

 now building- up, then may your })resent \isit be a blessing botji to 

 3^our posterity and ours by making that powei- one for good to all 

 mankind. Your deliberations will help to demonstrate to us and 

 to the world at hirge that the reign of law nuist 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 

 Avar which science is now waging against tlie sources of diseases, 

 pain, and misei-y otl'ers an even nobler held for the exercise of heroic 

 qualities than can that of battle. AVe ho])e that when, after your 

 all too fleeting sojourn in our midst, you retui'u 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 xaried labors. 

 And if a new im})etus is thus given to the gi-eat intellectual move- 

 ment of the past century, resulting not only in j)romoting the unifica- 

 tion of knowledge, but in widening its field through new combina- 

 tions of efi'ort on the jKirt of its votaries, the projectors, organizers, 

 and supporters of this Congress of Arts and Science will be justified 

 of their labors. 



