8 MR. cushing's address. 



His passion is to occupy land ; but in the indulgence of it he 

 is carried away by individualism, and so he takes wherever he 

 can, without punctilious regard for the rights of property in 

 others ; and, as he is in temper unsocial and repellent towards 

 other races, he exterminates or expels the previous occupants. 



In a word, among Anglo-Saxons, the federative principle ob- 

 tains; the centrifugal force is stronger than the centripetal ; and 

 the society perpetually tends towards anarchy and dissolution. 



Accordingly, there was no such thing as permanent and well 

 ordered general government among the Anglo-Saxons, until 

 the Norman-French conquered England, and infused into the 

 society a portion of the Celtic elements of cohesion by mutual 

 relation or co-dependence, and centralization of political au- 

 thority. Then, and not until then, did Britain become a pow- 

 er in Europe. 



NoVxT, is it because of the Anglo-Saxon blood and character of 

 the primitive settlers of these United States, as manifested in 

 their political tendencies and in their religion, that these Unit- 

 ed States became and have continued to be a great people ? 



I reply, no : race and blood, with inherited instincts or hab 

 its belonging to them, determined the quality, not the fact, o 

 greatness. The proof of which is, that the Spaniards, a Celtic 

 race, with a genius the opposite of the Teutonic, with central- 

 ization of political ideas, co-dependence of social habits, and 

 catholic unity of religion, yet in less time than the English, 

 and with greater obstacles to overcome, established a more 

 magnificent empire in America. 



It required but one hundred years for the Spaniards to bind 

 together the two continents in one powerful state, extending 

 from ocean to ocean, and from Sante Fe in the North to Val- 

 divia in the South, through seventy-five degrees of latitude ; 

 to establish definite and equitable relations between the con- 

 querors and the conquered ; to christianise the latter ; to create 

 in all that vast region rich seaports of maritime commerce ; to 

 build up refined and populous interior cities ; to organize pro- 

 ductive industrial enterprises on the largest and most profitable 

 scale ; to construct edifices and establishments of religion, 

 government, military defence, education, and philanthropy, 



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