The United States and the Future of the Anglo-Saxon Race, by REV. Josiah Strong; And the Growth of American Industries and Wealth, by Michael G. Mulhall
The United States and the Future of the Anglo-Saxon Race, by REV. Josiah Strong; And the Growth of American Industries and Wealth, by Michael G. Mulhall
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... / THE UNITED STATES AND THE Future of the Anglo-Saxon Race. CHAPTER I. NATIONAL RESOURCES. It is necessary to the argument to show that the United States is capable of sustaining a vast population. The fathers on Massachusetts Bay once decided that population was never likely to be very dense west of Newton ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... / THE UNITED STATES AND THE Future of the Anglo-Saxon Race. CHAPTER I. NATIONAL RESOURCES. It is necessary to the argument to show that the United States is capable of sustaining a vast population. The fathers on Massachusetts Bay once decided that population was never likely to be very dense west of Newton (a suburb of Boston), and the founders of Lynn, after exploring ten or fifteen miles, doubted whether the country was good for anything farther west than that. Until recent times, only less inadequate has been the popular conception of the transmissouri region and the millions destined to inhabit it. Of late years, home missionary writers and speakers have tried to astonish us into some appreciation of our national domain. Yet it may well be doubted whether even he who has pondered most upon its magnitude has a "realizing sense" of it. Though astonishing comparisons have ceased to astonish, I know of no means more effective or more just by which to present our physical basis of empire. What, then, should we say of a republic of eighteen states each as large as Spain; or one of thirty-one states, each as large as Italy; or one of sixty states, each as large as England and Wales? What a confederation of nations! Take five of the six first-class Powers of Europe, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, and Italy; then add Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Denmark, and Greece. Let some greater than Napoleon weld them into one mighty empire, and you could lay it all down in the United States west of the Hudson River, once, and again, and again--three times. Well may Mr. Gladstone say that we have "a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever established by man;" and well may the English premier add: "And the distinction between...
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