Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . Schley, and Sampson, of the Amefican Navy, 1898 patent; and it is understood that it will only be a short time whencables of this kind will be constructed and laid; and then any part ofthe United States will be within conversational distance of any partof Europe.^ And should the same rate of progress, compared withthe past, continue a few years longer, the figures we now chroniclewill be relegated to the musty records of outlived years. CountZeppelins air ship, which, to a certain degree and
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . Schley, and Sampson, of the Amefican Navy, 1898 patent; and it is understood that it will only be a short time whencables of this kind will be constructed and laid; and then any part ofthe United States will be within conversational distance of any partof Europe.^ And should the same rate of progress, compared withthe past, continue a few years longer, the figures we now chroniclewill be relegated to the musty records of outlived years. CountZeppelins air ship, which, to a certain degree and for particular pur-poses, seems to be, from the latest accounts, a marked success,opens another broad field in which American genius will exploit itselfin the immediate future. See also Epilogue to this work. In 1876 there was published a history of the United States, called The Centennial History. We give an extensive quotation fromthe work, because it will be of interest to the reader, as it was issuedonly a short quarter of a century ago, and its statements bring to THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY 43. Admirals Montojo and Cerveva, of the Spanish Navy, 1898 view so clearly the small begiiiniiii^s of what are now the greatfeatures of this country. It says : — Here, oa the verge of the centennial anniversary of the l)irth of ourRepublic, let us take a brief review of the material and intellectual progress ofour country during the first hundred years of its political independence. The extent of the conceded domain of the United States, in 1776, was notmore than half a million square miles, now [when the word nota appears in thisrelation it means the year igoi, or statistics as near thereto as can be obtained]it is more than 3,300,000 square miles [according to latest statistics, with theterritory acquired from the Spanish war, 3,758,884 square miles]. Its popula-tion then was about two million and a half [2,803,000]; [now 76,343,461, andincluding the inhabitants of Porto Rico and th
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