outcome of the institutions which we are now building 

 up, then may your present visit be a blessing both to 

 your posterity and ours by making that power one for 

 good to all mankind. Your deliberations will help to 

 demonstrate to us and to the world at large that the 

 reign of law must supplant that of brute force in the 

 relations of the nations, just as it has supplanted it in 

 the relations of individuals. You will help to show 

 that the war which science is now waging against the 

 sources of diseases, pain and misery offers an even 

 nobler field for the exercise of heroic qualities than can 

 that of battle. We hope that when, after your all too- 

 fleeting sojourn in our midst, you return to your own 

 shores, you will long feel the influence of the new air 

 you have breathed in an infusion of increased vigor in 

 pursuing your varied labors. And if a new impetus 

 is thus given to the great intellectual movement of the 

 past century, resulting not only in promoting the uni- 

 fication of knowledge, but in widening its field through 

 new combinations of effort on the part of its votaries, 

 the projectors, organizers and supporters of this Con- 

 gress of Arts and Science will be justified of their 

 labors. 



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