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to invite indefinite expansion, with the deliberate purpose of including 
all nations in a league of universal peace. These are methods and forms 
all now to be seen in actual existence and operation, and all confirming 
the positive and unquestionable tradition which ascribes their origin to: 
one master mind, endowed with transcendent genius, forethought, and 
benevolence. Yet it is clear that the beneficent genius of Hiawatha 
would have been unavailing if it had not been seconded by the remark- 
able intellectual and moral qualities of his people — a people whose 
achievements, institutions, and language show them to have been, in 
natural capacity and the higher elements of character, not inferior to 
any race of men of whom history preserves a record, 

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Sec. II., 1895. 5. 
