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the Mediterranean in Europe, the Persian gulf in Asia, and to 

 "whatever they can get on this continent. Those tribes that 

 advanced westward from llussia in former times, as the Avars 

 and Bulgarians, were nomadic, attached to the soil no further 

 than the breeding of cattle required, and consequently remain- 

 ed barbarian, and soon perished, as in more ancient times the 

 Goths, Vandals and Lombards, who went down upon Rome, 

 were nomades and hunters, and all perished except where ag- 

 riculture civilized and saved them ; but the Sclavonians aro 

 agricultural, as the Russians and Poles and other peoples that 

 now form the vast empire whicli promises to divide the world 

 and give it laws, with the Anglo-Saxons of the west. 



The Anglo-Saxons are like them in their estimate of the 

 value and in their uses of land. In the early age in which 

 Tacitus wrote, he said they *' shunned the city, and sought 

 their abodes by the sparkling fountains, along the green glades, 

 and in the solemn depths of the forests." The same are they 

 to-day in England and her forty provinces, which make the 

 mother empire so vast that the sun never sets on it — an em- 

 pire whose morning drum beat and evening guns resound 

 around the world. The same are they in the United States, 

 where the love of the soil has in the life-time of one genera- 

 tion of men pressed us over the Alleghanies, across the broad 

 valley of the Mississippi, and down on the shores of the Pa- 

 cific — has carried us from the Lake region over the great plains 

 to the Rio Grande, and must soon land us at the Isthmus, in 

 full possession of all the territory to that point, whether we 

 remain one people or a half dozen, for that is our destiny. — 

 What the Anglo-Saxon race north of us does not take of this 

 continent, we of the United States do. It is our natm-al An- 

 glo-Saxon love for land — " earth-hunger," as Emerson terms 

 it, that makes us the colonizing, civilizing, controlling and 

 dominating race of the West, as Russia is of the East, and 

 that to-day gives us — the Anglo-Saxons — the same position on 

 the globe that the Romans held two thousand years ago. 



