Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . hemisphere. And this is in fullharmony with the ideas already quoted, and more which might bepresented, that the progress of empire is with the sun around theearth from east to west. Commencing in Asia, the cradle of therace, it would end on this continent, which completes the Berkeley, in his celebrated poem on America, written morethan one hundred years ago, in the following forcible lines, pointed LOCATION OF THE GOVERNMENT T37 out the then future position of America, and it
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . hemisphere. And this is in fullharmony with the ideas already quoted, and more which might bepresented, that the progress of empire is with the sun around theearth from east to west. Commencing in Asia, the cradle of therace, it would end on this continent, which completes the Berkeley, in his celebrated poem on America, written morethan one hundred years ago, in the following forcible lines, pointed LOCATION OF THE GOVERNMENT T37 out the then future position of America, and its connection with pre-ceding empires : — IVesiward the course of empire takes its way,The first four acts already past,A. fifth shall close the drama with the day ;Times noblest offspring is the last. By the iirst four acts already past, the bishop had undoubtedreference to the four- universal kingdoms of Daniels fifth great power, the noblest and the last, was, according to hispoem, to arise this side of the Atlantic, and here close the drama oftime, as the day here ends its Laying an Ocean Cable To what part of the American continent shall we look for thepower in question. — To the most powerful and prominent nation,certainly. This is so self-evident that we need not stop to pass inreview the frozen fragments of humanity on the north of us, nor theweak, superstitious, semibarbarous, revolutionary, and uninfluentialkingdoms to the south of us. No; we come to the United States,and here we are held. To this nation the question of the location ofthe two-horned beast undeviatingly leads us. As an objection to this view, it may occur to some minds that thetwo-horned beast exercises all the power of the first beast before him(Greek, ivM-mov, literally, in his eyes, or before his face), and doeswonders in his sight; and how can the United States, separated byan ocean from European kingdoms, hold such an intimate relation lO 138 THE MARVEL OF NATIONS to them ?
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