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own work to do and its own problems to solve. Happy 

 tlie age that can call strength and wisdom its own ; 

 full of woe and trouble if it be beset with weakness 

 and folly. No one can look back upon the first century 

 of our nation and fail to see a constant progress, and 

 a progress, on the whole, for good. It is for the 

 growth of the present, understanding the work of the 

 past, to be strong and wise to do the work of a new 

 age, the beginning of which is now with us. but the 

 end of which no man can see.. 



