becomes disgusted with its native barbarism, and yields itself actively and 

 gladly to the transforming and fertilizing culture. So the earth established in 

 justice and truth, becomes the foster mother of multitudes, opening her generous 

 breast to men of every nation, and pouring out to them, those great streams of 

 physical life without which moral life itself would speedily die away. The 

 farmer with worthy pride, turns over to the artisan the product of his labor, 

 and says, "Brother, complete my work and begin your own; pursue the great 

 toil prescribed by God to man," and the artisan takes the fruits of agriculture, 

 summons from every quarter the hidden or refractory powers of nature, sub- 

 dues the refractory, brings to light the hidden, and in his turn creates those 

 wonders which are the last utterance of man and of matter in the sphere of the 

 useful, as the fine arts are their last utterance in the sphere of the beautiful, 

 and when farmer and artisan have done their work, then commerce lifts her 

 broad wings, her sails fill, her engines hiss and throb, her ships plough the sea, 

 her fiery chariots traverse the land, the arteries of nations open in every direc- 

 tion, that the blood of a common civilization, the vivifying sap of the same 

 moral ideas, and the same material products may permeate all mankind, and the 

 word of Saint Paul is fulfilled, which was not made known before the coming 

 of Christianity, that supreme inspirer of great things. Oentes esse cohaeredes, 

 "that the nations should be fellow heirs." 



