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PLUNGING INTO THE DEEP I U. S. S. 



i, © Commander James B. Gilmer 



: new york" in a hurricane 



Fighting forces on land are frequently deterred from offensive operations by storms, 

 but at sea it often happens that the fouler the weather the greater the possibility of a brush 

 with the enemy. 



sponsibilities to our fellows, and with a 

 spirit of glorious adventure and achieve- 

 ment, America will in the days to come 

 sail every sea, chart every river, see its 

 flag flying above its commerce-laden ships 

 in the harbors of the uttermost parts of 

 the earth, for "no pent-up Utica will con- 

 tract our powers." 



THE UNIVERSE WILE BE OURS FOR HELPING 

 OUR FELLOW-MEN 



By service we shall claim "the bound- 

 less universe" as ours, not by conquest, 

 but by opening new avenues for helping 

 our fellow-men. Knowing that 



"There are firths beyond Pentland 

 And friths beyond Forth," 



we shall explore them all and leave no 

 resource undeveloped and no clime un- 

 known. 



And when, with a world-wide horizon, 

 our America is once again happy, youth- 

 ful with the zest of discovery, who will 



be our heroes? We will not find them 

 in the staid statesmen of other days, who 

 thought that the Alleghanies constituted 

 the farthest outpost of possibilities, and 

 that beyond the Mississippi was a coun- 

 try not worthy of exploration ; who 

 hugged the chimney corners of the At- 

 lantic seaboard ; scoffed at Jefferson for 

 the vision that caused him to send Lewis 

 and Clark to that new land "where flows 

 the Oregon" ; or saw nothing to make 

 their pulses thrill in the voyages of dis- 

 covery which were made by Wilkes and 

 Perry, and Lynch and Lee, and Page and 

 Ringgold, and Rodgers and Hall, and 

 Herndon and Selfridge, and Todd and 

 Hodges, and Schley and Sigsbee, and 

 Peary, and scientific research along origi- 

 nal lines by Maury and Pillsbury and 

 other like explorers, and naval diplomats 

 like Perry, who in this day would be well 

 called "forward-looking men." 



The new world, which, with a new 

 heaven and a new earth, and new ideals. 



