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troyed by this unity, it follows, of course, 

 that intellectual processes will not be 

 materially altered. In the same land now 

 one is a poet and another a philosopher, 

 and in the drawing together of the races 

 men will differ intellectually as in the 

 past. The German and the Chinaman will 

 be slow and steady; the Frenchman and 

 the Japanese quick and mercurial. The 

 difference between the mental and moral 

 characteristics of nations is as great as ■ 

 that between their physical characteristics. 

 Steamers and telegraphs will affect a man's 

 intellectual faculties no more than the 

 color of his face or the texture of his hair. 

 Each nation will modify every other, and 

 the common thought will be different from 

 what it is now precisely because what one 

 people think all people will think ; but 

 the intellectual faculty, which is largely 

 the product of ancestry and environment, 

 will remain practically as at present. If 

 the faculty is not changed, the processes, 

 which are the paths along which the fac- 

 ulty moves, will not be greatly changed. 



While slowly but surely the people of 

 the world are being united; while the 

 movement must be accelerated, it is not 



