Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . From a model in Pilgrim Hall, at Plymouth, Mass. The Mayflower. CHAPTER II THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY HAVE the foregoing predictions been justified, and the expecta-tions of these great men been fultilled ? Every person whosereading is ordinarily extensive has something of an idea of whatthe United States is to-day; he Hkewise has an idea, so far as wordscan convey it to his mind, of what this country was at the commence-ment of its history. The only object, then, in presenting statisticsand t
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . From a model in Pilgrim Hall, at Plymouth, Mass. The Mayflower. CHAPTER II THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY HAVE the foregoing predictions been justified, and the expecta-tions of these great men been fultilled ? Every person whosereading is ordinarily extensive has something of an idea of whatthe United States is to-day; he Hkewise has an idea, so far as wordscan convey it to his mind, of what this country was at the commence-ment of its history. The only object, then, in presenting statisticsand testimony on this point, is to show that our rapid growth hasstruck mankind with the wonder of a constant Emile de Girardin, in La Liberie (1868): — The population of America, not thinned by any conscription, multiplieswith prodigious rapidity, and the day may before long be] seen, when they willnumber sixty or eighty millions [76X millions in 1901] of souls. This parvenue[one recently risen to notice] is aware of his importance and destiny. Hear himproudly exclaim, America for Americans ! See him promising his alliance toRussia; and we see that
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