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fight and fall without enthusiastic witnesses, in the darkness, 
because his language is not intelligible for the masses and 
the fascinating power of his discoveries seldom goes beyond 
the circles of few select souls. 
One of those brightest circles in your country gather 
now around Professor Holmes, to who full justice is so done. 
I know his work. The Old Ceramic, the stones modeled by wild 
artists, the Indian remains and its decorations and the geo- 
logical stratum, does speak eloquently under te investigations 
about the past ages, as can do the phonograph returning in the 
voice of the deaths. I hope his work shall enlarge its hori- 
zons in the Museum of Chicago. 
The time is just come in which we want to remember that 
the scientific responsibility of the New World belong to the 
Americans. We want to unite our plan of investigation since 
“the North Polar Sea controlled by the United States until the 
Austral Ocean controlled by the Argentine FPepublic, under the same 
igeal-of seneralization through uniform proceedings. Doings so 
it shall be possible to concentrate and to profit many actions 
which are now working alones, without guides, losing forces and 
results as the traveller strayed in the forest and engaged in 
the discovery of the truth path amongs the numberless and 
crossing footsteps of the wild beasts. 
It seems to me that few years of general «nd combined 
action upon the three Americas shall show us other and very 
important aspect of the past. That aspect we could name; 
