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meat. Yet the tale of what we call An- 

 glo-Saxon vigor is but part of the story ; 

 for the history of a century has shown 

 that the vigorous folk of northwestern 

 Europe came to their own in its fullness 

 onty after they had journeyed afar and 

 engaged in new struggles for conquest 

 over Nature and for the amelioration of 

 their kind. So it was that America 

 arose to the culminating plane of human 

 progress, to the enlightenment kindled 

 by Washington and his co-workers ; so 

 it was that Australia attained distinctive 

 national character as a new chapter in 

 world-history through the effects of 

 labor in new lands, the blending of new 

 lines of blood, and the birth of new gen- 

 erations ; so it was also that the minia- 

 ture continent of New Zealand — Lloyd's 

 "Newest England" — reached her 

 unique social condition after strenuous 

 interactions between white men and 

 brown. In the light of the law that 

 blood is not all, but that culture, or 



moral force, is the final factor in the 

 shapement of progress, the bow of prom- 

 ise may be seen by eye of hope to hover 

 over the islands and the shorelands 

 alike, about the vast expanse of the 

 great ocean ; for, in the light of this 

 law, it is the great Nation of Enlighten- 

 ment which must exert the moral force 

 required for the reclamation of the isl- 

 ands of the sea and the lands beyond — 



Time's noblest offspring is the last. 



Most eloquently and effectively did 

 our last speaker — Mr. Austin — show 

 that the Stars and Stripes now gleam 

 through clouds of doubt and smoke of 

 uncertainty in every part of the Pacific 

 province ; yet a still brighter feature 

 than that of commercial conquest is 

 that of the moral conquest, the human 

 renovation, to which the best efforts of 

 our citizens are directed. 



And of such is the promise of the 

 Pacific. 



PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC-NEW 

 ZEALAND* 



By Henry Demarest Lloyd, 



Author of "Newest England," etc.. 



THERE is a country on the other 

 side of the world which is 

 known to its admirers as the 

 experiment state of modern democracy. 

 It has made itself more talked about 

 politically than any -other county of 

 recent times. Though a small country, 

 it is a very large laboratory of social 

 science. Its admirers describe it as the 

 political advance-country of the world, 

 so confident are they that in its evolu- 

 tion it is only the leader in the path in 

 which we must all follow with our de- 



mocracy; they look upon it as a sort of 

 contemporaneous posterity, as if it were 

 a present mirror in which the twentieth- 

 century democrat may look his grand- 

 children in the face. 



This country, which lies under our 

 feet, is New Zealand, our antipodes — 

 antipodes in more senses than one. I 

 went there two years ago in order to see 

 for myself what might be found out 

 about the achievements of this country 

 which had been so much praised as it 

 was seen by the eyes of its admirers ; to 



■An address before the National Geographic Society, March 19, 1902. 



