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®rder to exalt the other, is a foe to the human race. In him 
the heart as well as the head must be disordered. 
None such are here present. We are united in one com¬ 
mon aim of fostering and encouraging whatever may be 
useful to our country. The situation of that country is pe¬ 
culiarly favorable to such exertions. Our horizon though 
cloudy, is not enveloped in the lurid darkness of the Eastern 
hemisphere. In one state in Europe, every new invention 
which substitutes machinery for manual labor, inflames civil 
discord, while we hail it as a valuable addition to our nation¬ 
al riches. In others, the Arts and Sciences are only culti¬ 
vated that they may be accessary to plans of military des¬ 
potism, and that contending nations may wield with fiercer 
destruction the infernal machinery of war. Who from this 
survey, where the exertions of human intellect appear curs¬ 
ed with unprofitableness, will not turn to his own country, 
as the last defence and shelter of civilization and human 
happiness ? Who will not lend his best aid in conducting 
her to the summit of national greatness l 
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