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vance as far and as fast as we have advanced, 

 no people can make such progress as we have made, 

 and expect to escape the penalties that go with such 

 speed and progress. The growth and complexity 

 of our civilization, the intensity of the movement 

 of modern life, have meant that with the benefits 

 have come certain disadvantages and certain perils. 

 A great industrial civilization can not be built up 

 without a certain dislocation, a certain disarrange 

 ment of the old conditions, and therefore the spring 

 ing up of new problems. The problems are new, 

 but the qualities needed to solve them are as old 

 as history itself, and we shall solve them aright 

 only on condition that we bring to the solution the 

 same qualities of head and heart that have been 

 brought to the solution of similar problems by every 

 race that has ever conquered for itself a space in 

 the annals of time. 



AT THE BIG TREE GROVE, SANTA CRUZ, CAL., 

 MAY n, 1903 



Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I want to thank you very much for your courtesy 

 in receiving me, and to say how much I have 

 enjoyed being here. This is the first glimpse I 

 have ever had of the big trees, and I wish to pay 

 the highest tribute I can to the State of California, 

 to those private citizens and associations of citizens 

 who have co-operated with the State in preserving 

 these wonderful trees for the whole nation, in pre- 



