of barbaric splendor and then stop. We cannot discusB the point, but the Aryan, 

 —a larger term for what we generally style the white race,— the Aryan race does 

 progress. This race developed the civilizations of India and of Persia, of Greece 

 and Rome, of Germany and France, of England and the United States. What- 

 ever is most valuable among the possessions of mankind to-day is the product 

 of their active brains and industrious hands. From the remote past to the liv- 

 ing present they have been toiling and striving, waging a ceaseless war against 

 nature and circumstances, 



Ever reaping sometliing uew. 

 That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. 



The struggle has been long, but what is strange the Aryan race has gone for- 

 ward more rapidly in the last 100 years than in all the past centuries of its 

 history. Mr. Gladstone said, not long ago, that England had amassed more 

 wealth in this century than in all the previous 1800 years of the christian era. 

 Our own government has been founded, and our wealth developed in the same 

 period. Consider for a moment what this implies. Ca^l to mind the number 

 and extent of our canals ; our steamboats which have come into existence and 

 have developed all their value, speed and beauty in 100 years ; our railroads, 

 telegraphs, mills, factories, furnaces, machines, gas, chemicals, the products 

 of 100 years. The mind staggers under the magnitude of our achievements. 

 To use a favorite phrase, we cannot "realize it" at a glauce. The American 

 boy looks out upon the world and feels that it always was as he beholds it His 

 aged grandfather takes his seat in a palace car and forgets that his birth was 

 coeval with the steam engine. 



Mr. Hit tell, a very valuable writer, recently gave some curious statistic 

 relating to the world's progress in the last 100 years. In the middle of the 

 last century a turnpike covered with gravel or broken stone was a rarity even 

 in the neighborhoods of the great capitals of Europe. Travellers then usually 

 went on horseback. Not a hundred years have elapsed since the owners of 

 ridins horses petitioned the English parliament to forbid the establishment of a 

 stage coach line, which had lately been started and was ruining their business. 

 In 1760 England began building canals, and now 6000 miles have been con- 

 structed by the Aryans at a cost of $500,000,000. The shipping of Christen- 

 dom has risen from 15 hundred thousand to 15 million of tons. Railroads 

 140,000 miles in length have been constructed at a cost of 2,000,000,000 of 

 dollars. So also the gain in the materials for commerce has been immense. 

 Steam engines furnish a power estimated to be equal to that of 300,000,000 

 working men, and the saving of labor by other machines is probably almost as 

 much. The annual consumption of iron has increased from 200,000 to twelve 

 million tons. Our houses, our tools, our clothing, our food, our trades, and 

 our professions are different in many important points. Farmers have thrown 

 aside the wooden plough within a hundred years. The wooden mould-board 

 was excellent as compared with the barbaric plough which had no mould-board, 

 and did not throw a furrow to one side, but merely scratched the ground, mak- 

 ing a ridge on each side of the plough-point. While oak was the material, the 

 farmer usually hewed or chopped out his own board, and fastened it on his 



