ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 329 



The discovery of America on the one hand, and the cir- 

 cumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope upon the other, 

 opened up endless avenues of growth, progress, wealth, 

 and liberty. The Cape of Good Hope had long been 

 known as the "Cape of Storms." When once it was 

 found that it pointed the way to India, it ceased to be the 

 "Cape of Storms" and became instead the Cape of Good 

 Hope; and from this promontory civilization is now 

 reaching out and spreading over the dark continent itself. 

 The great western ocean was believed to be filled with 

 danger, monsters, and death, until Columbus showed it 

 was a pathway to the New World. 



Standing a few years ago in St. Mark's Cathedral, at 

 Venice, and looking, with my wife, at the mosaic pictures 

 of Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the dome, my wife turned 

 suddenly to me and said, "Where is America?" and sure 

 enough in this perfect and beautiful arch there was no 

 allegory to represent the New World. It was still un- 

 known. 



The Spaniards led the way to America, the Portuguese 

 led the way by the Cape of Good Hope to India. Both 

 these nations claimed the earth and the fullness thereof, 

 by reason of their great discoveries. Pope Alexander 

 the Sixth took a chart of the new discoveries, and claimed 

 as the vicar of Christ, the right to divide the New World. 

 And one of the most interesting exhibits at the World's 

 Fair in Chicago was the original manuscript of the pope's 

 bull by which the hemisphere was thus divided between 

 the Spanish and the Portuguese crowns. 



The civilization of the Aztecs and the Incas was re- 

 morselessly divided between rival dynasties who repre- 

 sented the divine right of kings. 



In ancient times the flight of birds was watched by the 

 soothsayers with profound interest. Columbus sailed 

 due west until the flight of the parrots flying over the 



