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this is a scientific congress, and I feel that I should call upon the scientific 

 expert, and I know no better way to do this than to call upon an expert 

 in the science of jurisprudence. I would request, therefore, that Judge 

 George Gray, who has so often served his country, not only on the bench 

 at home but at The Hague, respond to the scientific toast. 



ADDRESS OF JUDGE GEORGE GRAY, CHAIRMAN OF 

 THE UNITED STATES DELEGATION. 



Mr. Secretary of State, Your Excellency the Ambassador of Chile, and 

 Members of the Pan American Scientific Congress: 



When I was first tendered the honor by the Secretary of State \vith 

 an appointment to this great congress, whose title was the Pan American 

 Scientific Congress, I replied that there was no one in all the wide bounds 

 of this country to whom the word "scientific" was less applicable than 

 myself. He replied graciously that as I had been for some time a lawyer, 

 a country lawyer, and some time upon the bench, that I ought not to 

 forswear my profession, but come to this scientific congress and partici- 

 pate as best I could in the section of international law and jurispru- 

 dence. So I accepted the invitation and am here to-day with that degree 

 of pride that comes from the association of a nameless individual with 

 the great scientists of the Western Hemisphere. I feel proud of this 

 association, and my self respect has been greatly increased by my asso- 

 ciation here in this assemblage. 



My friends — I will not say my friends of South America — we are all 

 Americans to-night, and let us hope there will, from this time on as 

 never before, be Americans, Pan Americans, in the true sense of that 

 word. 



I listened with interest to his excellency, the ambassador from Chile, 

 as he spoke in fluent English to this great assemblage, and I thought 

 of the bond of union it would be if we in the north could know the lan- 

 guage of the south as he does ours. No greater bond of union could 

 exist between peoples than unity of language. No greater obstacle to 

 friendly intercourse, to that intimacy which is better than alliances or 

 treaties, can exist than diversity of language, and I hope that that 

 admonition that was made in your Final Act in the congress to-day to the 

 peoples of North and South America to cultivate the language of each 

 other by greater attention to Spanish and Portuguese by the institutions 

 of learning here in the north, and greater attention to English by like 

 institutions in the south, will bear fruit, and if it does I am confident 



