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many accounts, and above all for the purpose of realizing 

 the magnificent advance that has been made by them in 

 becoming universities worthy of our country. 



My anticipations were far more than met. My old stu 

 dent and successor at the University of Michigan as pro 

 fessor and at Cornell University as president, Dr. Charles 

 Kendall Adams, welcomed me to the institution over which 

 he so worthily presided the State University of Wis 

 consin; and having visited it a quarter of a century be 

 fore, I was now amazed at its progress. The subject of 

 my address, in the presence of the whole body of students, 

 was Evolution versus Revolution in Politics, and never 

 have I spoken with more faith and hope. Looking into 

 the faces of that immense assembly of students, in training 

 for the best work of their time, lifted me above all doubts 

 as the future of that commonwealth. 



From Madison I went to Minneapolis under an invita 

 tion to address the students at the State University of 

 Minnesota, and again my faith and hope were renewed as 

 I looked into the faces of those great audiences of young 

 men and young women. They filled me with confidence 

 in the future of the country. At Minneapolis I also met 

 various notable men, among them Archbishop Ireland, 

 who had interested me much at a former meeting in Phila 

 delphia. I became sure that whatever ecclesiastics of his 

 church generally might feel toward the United States, he 

 was truly patriotic. Alas for both church and state that 

 such prelates as Gibbons, Ireland, Keane, Spalding, and 

 the like, should be in a minority ! 



But my most curious experience was due to another 

 citizen of Minnesota. Having been taken to the State 

 House, I was introduced, in the lower branch of the legisla 

 ture, to no less a personage than Mr. Ignatius Donnelly, so 

 widely known by his publications regarding the authorship 

 of Shakspere s writings; and on my asking him whether 

 he was now engaged on any literary work, he informed me 

 that he was about to publish a book which would leave no 

 particle of doubt, in the mind of any thinking man, that 



