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to anticipate a common future. They are 

 like streams which have risen in many 

 countries gradually nearing one another; 

 by and by they will meet and swell a 

 mighty river ; the river will be one, and 

 yet from it will run silver lines to many 

 and far distant mountain springs. 



Again, there is no likelihood of radical 

 changes in what may be called racial 

 nature. Men will get together, but those 

 subtile differences of temperament and 

 character which, in large measure, are the 

 results of physical environment will re- 

 main. The unity of the world will affect 

 neither the climate nor the configuration 

 of various lands : consequently while 

 widely separated nations may come to- 

 gether, it will not be into uniformity and 

 monotony, but into the use of what be- 

 longs to the individual nation for the 

 common good. The highlands will still 

 breed heroes, while the lowlands will raise 

 agricultural and commercial peoples; but 

 railways and telegraphs will bring high- 

 lands and lowlands so near to one another 

 that their interests will be the same, and. 

 each be seen to be necessary to the other. 



Since individualities will not be des- 



