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flag of the Stars and Stripes, let us all work for the realization of the 

 brotherhood of man and the great democratic doctrine of right, liberty, 

 and happiness. 



BRAZIL: HIS EXCELLENCY DOMICIO DA GAMA, AMBASSA- 

 DOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY. 



Mr. Vice President, Mr. Secretary of State, Mr. President of the Congress, 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I will not try to improve upon the impression left in your minds by 

 the eloquent speeches that have just been pronounced. Your applause 

 has shown your entire approbation of the dominant sentiment expressed 

 in them. This sentiment of Pan Americanism, which seems so neces- 

 sary to human life, is like that of the simple man in the comedy of Moli^re, 

 who was so pleased to learn that every time he spoke he was using prose. 

 Well, we may truly wonder whether all these years we have not been mak- 

 ing Pan Americanism when we thought that we were working for our 

 national interests alone. As for Brazil, I may assure you that that was 

 the fact. We always think of ourselves first, but next we think of 

 America. I need not prove my assertion. The delegates from Brazil 

 are carrying with them evidence enough that they are animated with 

 that mighty spirit which is working such wonders in this blessed con- 

 tinent of ours, and I know that they will not be found wanting if you 

 put them to the test. 



CHILE: JULIO PHILIPPI, VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE DELE- 

 GATION. 



Mr. Vice President, Mr. Secretary of State, Mr. Prcsidint of the Pan 



American Scientific Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



Six years ago the capital of my country, Santiago, had the esteemed 

 honor of welcoming the distinguished guests who, from all the Republics 

 of the continent, had come together in celebration of the First Pan 

 American Scientific Congress. 



To-day we are reunited for the second time in this capital, guests of the 

 oldest and most powerful of the sister Republics. 



It is a vast continent which the countries we represent occupy — a new 

 world, rightly called new, for that it counts but a few centuries since it 

 was discovered and peopled by European races; new because it is, and I 

 hope it always mil be, animated with a new concept of the destiny of 

 humanity and its forms of government. 



It is a fact, which does not connote any casual happening and toward 

 whose transcendence I would for a moment call attention, that every one 



