. Review of reviews and world's work. did much to humanize the policy ofthe worlds most extensive empire ; to reconcile-was his dearest ambition, rather than to over-rule. Bismarck molded together into one body,,with a single heart, the fragments of a scatteredpeople, showing us the vast power that lies inunity. Darwin, lovable and humble, brokedown the barriers that cut us off from the lesserraces of the world ; broke down the barriers oftime, and showed us the one Life surging for-ever through all living creatures. Max Miiller,accomplishing a like task for the invisible world,threw down the
. Review of reviews and world's work. did much to humanize the policy ofthe worlds most extensive empire ; to reconcile-was his dearest ambition, rather than to over-rule. Bismarck molded together into one body,,with a single heart, the fragments of a scatteredpeople, showing us the vast power that lies inunity. Darwin, lovable and humble, brokedown the barriers that cut us off from the lesserraces of the world ; broke down the barriers oftime, and showed us the one Life surging for-ever through all living creatures. Max Miiller,accomplishing a like task for the invisible world,threw down the partition-walls between peoplesand tongues, making all the children of menonce more akin in thought, as Darwin had shownthem kindred in blood ; and, lifting the mistsfrom bygone ages, showed us the community ofour speech, our thought and aspiration, with the-word long hushed on lips of vanished races, ofmen whose name memory has ceased to whisperalong the deserted corridors of time. MARCUS DALY, EMPIRE-BUILDER. BY SAMUEL E. Photo by Davis & Sanford, New York. THE liATE MARCUS DALY. THE career of the late Marcus Daly gave em-phatic evidence that < empire-building W2S no new thing in this country. Daly was anempire-builder before Manila meant anythingmore to American ears than Singapore. Andthe enterprises he built up have added more tothe wealth of the nation than the Philippinesare likely to add in the next fifty years. Dalys experience ought to encourage youngmen who think that fortune is too slow in com-ing ; that the best part of life is past, and thatthere is really no use in hoping for anythingmore. Daly, like Cromwell, made no strikingsuccess until he was forty years old. Before that time, he had been dependent uponhis daily work for his living—latterly workingfor a good salary, but through all his earlier yearsdoing hard drudgery for poor pay. But throughit all he was irrepressible. He was like a steelspring, coiled up and ready to leap into action theinst
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