THE AN^GLO-SAXON AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE. 215 



that arts, sciences and empire had traveled westward; 

 and in conversation it was always added that their next 

 leap would be over the Atlantic into America." He 

 recalled a cou})let that had been inscribed or rather 

 drilled, into a rock on the shore of ^Monument Bay in 

 our old colony of Plymouth : 



' The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, 

 And empire rises Avhere the sun descends.' "i 



The brilliant Galiani, who foresaw a future in which 

 Europe should be ruled by America, wrote, during the 

 Revolutionary War: " I will wager in favor of America, 

 for the reason merely physical, that for 5,000 years 

 genius has turned opposite to the diurnal motion, and 

 traveled from the East to the West." ^ Count d'Aranda, 

 after signing the Treaty of Paris of 1773, as representa- 

 tive of Spain, wrote his king: "This Federal RepubUc 



is born a pigmy a day will come when it will 



be a giant, even a colossus formidable in these coun- 

 tries." 



Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations," predicts 

 the transfer of empire from Europe to America. The 

 traveler, Burnaby, found, in the middle of the last cen- 

 tury, that an idea had "entered into the minds of the 

 generality of mankind, that empire is traveling west- 

 ward; and every one is looking forvv^ard with eager 

 and impatient exj)ectation to that destined moment 

 when America is to give the law to the rest of the 

 world." Charles Sumner wrote of the "coming time 

 when the whole continent, with all its various states, 

 shall be a Plural Unit, with one Constitution, one Lib- 

 erty and one Destiny," and when "the national ex- 

 ample will be more puissant than army or navy for the 

 conquest of the world." ^ It surely needs no prophet's 

 eye to see that the civilization of the United States is 

 to be the civilization of America, and that the future 



» John Adams' Works. Vol. ix, pp. 597-599. 



« Galiani, Tome II. p. 275. 



3 See The Atlantic, Vol. XX, pp. 275-306. 



