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cial and domestic life, as well as government. They saw in man 

 a different being from what had been seen or recognized in the 

 Old World. They saw man as God made him ; above the fowls 

 of the air, the fish of the seas, the beasts of the field and the prod- 

 ucts of the earth, for God had given him dominion over all these, 

 and they endeavored to establish a government which would rec- 

 ognize their inalienable rights which had so long been denied to 

 the majority of men. Therefore, while still on board the little 

 vessel which had safely borne them from the fatherland, they en- 

 tered into a solemn compact to recognize in their social and pub- 

 lic hfe, the manhood of man. 



In the estabhshment of all European Society, this had been 

 entirely overlooked ; and not a nation on the footstool had ever 

 recognized the manhood of man- 



In founding the Colony, then, from which we originated and 

 from whose laws our own have to a large extent been formed, 

 the founders endeavored to put aside all prejudice of birth or 

 fortune and elevate all men to the high plane of Christian man- 

 hood. In the history of the world, this was the first time that 

 such a principle had been recognized as the corner stone of na- 

 tional existence. 



Recognizing this great principle, labor became not only digni- 

 fied and respectable, but intelligent and skillful. Capital was 

 made the handmaid of labor and not its master. Capital grew 

 out of labor, was its product, and therefore should not be its su- 

 perior. Capital was assigned its legitimate sphere and the laws 

 of the new colony were made to protect the men of the colony ; 

 for when the men of the colony were protected, the substance of 

 the colonists was secure. 



The idea, therefore, of educating labor and dignifying it and 

 making it superior to capital, was a novel idea — grew out of 

 the necessities of the situation, and became nationalized as pecu- 

 liarly American. 



Growing out of this general education of the people, came 

 inventions, lessening the labor of the hands and contributing to 

 the comfort and convenience and wealth of the world. So rapidly 



