The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . lic treasuryin discussing sectional difficulties, as it used to do, is now disposed to give nine-tenths of its time to the discussion of the agricultural, the mining, the manufac-turing, the commercial, the literary and the moral interests of thisnation. You will hear the anvil ring with a sturdier blow. Youwill see the furnace glow with a fiercer fire. You will see/ the wheel-buckets strike with a swifter dash. We havea land capable of supporting three thousand six hundredmillions of people; feeding them, clothing them,shelter
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . lic treasuryin discussing sectional difficulties, as it used to do, is now disposed to give nine-tenths of its time to the discussion of the agricultural, the mining, the manufac-turing, the commercial, the literary and the moral interests of thisnation. You will hear the anvil ring with a sturdier blow. Youwill see the furnace glow with a fiercer fire. You will see/ the wheel-buckets strike with a swifter dash. We havea land capable of supporting three thousand six hundredmillions of people; feeding them, clothing them,sheltering them. We have just begun to open theoutside door of this great underground vault inwhich nature holds its treasures—the copper,the zinc, the coal, the iron, the gold, the populations, what industries, what enter-prises, what wealth, what civilization youmight argue from the coal fields ! What ahadvance from the time when, underKing Edward, a man was put todeath for burning coal, andfrom the time when theHouse of Commonsforbade the useof whatwas. INTRODUCTION. xlvii called the noxious fuel, and these days when the long trains rush down fromthe mines and fill our coal bins and gorge the furnaces of our ocean steamers !One hundred and sixty thousand square miles of coal fields—two fields of coal,one reaching from Illinois down through Missouri into Iowa, and the other fromPennsylvania down into Alabama, while side by side with these great coal fieldsare the mines of iron. These two giants, these two Titans of the earth, iron andcoal, insuring perpetual wealth to the nation, standing side by side to help eachother, the iron to excavate and pry up the coal, and the coal to smelt and forgeand mould the iron. Eight hundred thousand tons of iron sent forth from themines in one year in this country. Thirty-two million tons of coal sent out fromthe mines ofthis countryin a all thisonly a proph-ecy of a largeryield whenwe shall comeon with lon-ger trains and
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