every quarter of the globe will be brought into requisition 

 to furnish dinner which will be spread before you to-day, 

 and in the preparation of it will be exhibited results of 

 the thought and experience of a thousand years. 



In the clothing you wear, materials gathered from every 

 zone have been wrought by skillful hands in many nations, 

 and fashioned by art that kings could not command in 

 former times. The abodes of the humblest among us are 

 models of comfort and convenience, and in every village 

 private citizens dwell in houses in some respects more 

 magnificent than the palaces of ancient days. 



How marvelous now are the acquirements of the hu- 

 man brain, and how wonderful the inventions it has 

 wrought. The steam-engine, the telegraph, the telephone, 

 the electric motor, but a few years ago the wildest fancy 

 did not dream that such things were possible. I have 

 sometimes thought that the stupendous facts which the 

 telescope reveals are no more impreesive than the amazing 

 power of the mind that invented the instruments by 

 which the laws of planetary motion were discovered, and 

 the vast distances to the fixed stars approximately de- 

 termined. 



The most potent agencies in the development of this 

 high civilization have been, first, the division of labor in 

 the production of wealth, by which men have been made 

 more and more dependent upon one another; and, second, 

 co-operation in the distribution of wealth, through the 

 means of exchanges or trade, by which men have been 

 made more and more to help each other. In the begin- 

 ning, each individual practiced all the arts that were 

 known ; now, few are masters of more than a single de- 

 partment in any of the great callings. Instead of each 



