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seas and majestic rivers ; with its forests of all woods, and its 
mines of all metals, what country is there like it on the globe ! 
No, race is not all. If God had planted the Anglo-Saxon 
upon Mexican or South American soil, not ours would be 
the countless ships that proudly bear the Stripes and Stars 
to foreign climes, and the products of our fertile fields to every 
people on the globe—not ours the countless palaces that float 
upon our lakes and rivers — not ours the iron bands that web 
the continent, and wed the stranger oceans that else had never 
heard each other’s voice—not ours the boundless West, whose 
mighty lap so loves to hold the diverse multitudes that come 
from other shores. 
The natural wealth of this great continent cannot be over¬ 
estimated. The artificial wealth derivable therefrom, imagi¬ 
nation staggers under the attempt to conceive it. No other 
people in all history have had such an inheritance. 
2. But the character of our population is also peculiar. 
We are the most composite people on the earth. England 
is peopled almost wholly by Anglo-Saxons, France by Gallo- 
Romans and Franks, Russia by Moguls and Sclavonians, and 
so on; but in America, although the predominant element is 
Anglo-Saxon, the whole people are a most remarkable mosaic 
of all “ peoples and kindreds and tongues. 7 In the progress 
of time, this rich mosaic will have been ground to powder by 
the attritional forces of active business and social intercourse, 
and its atoms cemented into one homogeneous jewel. Then 
shall we have the complete Ideal Race. Even now this work 
of blending the races has fairly begun; and if Ehrenberg were 
to examine the blood in our veins, it would puzzle him not a 
little to determine which was the Anglic, which the Teutonic, 
the Celtic, the Scandinavian, or Slavonian drop! This is the 
most significant fact of American. Civilization. 
See what has already come of it — what million-handed in¬ 
dustry—what cities and villages and rural homes—what man¬ 
ufactories—what railroads and telegraphs—what commerce— 
what literature, churches and schools ! 
