. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 188 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. struo-o-le. the exultation of victory and the consciousness of nascent strength tended to create à Mexican nation in the true sense of the term. From that time dates the real history of modern Mexico. The annexation of Mexico to its powerful northern neighbour, an event confi- dently foretold by so many politicians as inevitable, becomes daily more improbable as the country continues to increase in wfealth and population. The centres of gravity of the Mexican and Anglo-Saxon republics will always be separa
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 188 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. struo-o-le. the exultation of victory and the consciousness of nascent strength tended to create à Mexican nation in the true sense of the term. From that time dates the real history of modern Mexico. The annexation of Mexico to its powerful northern neighbour, an event confi- dently foretold by so many politicians as inevitable, becomes daily more improbable as the country continues to increase in wfealth and population. The centres of gravity of the Mexican and Anglo-Saxon republics will always be separated by a distance of at least 1,500 or 1,600 miles, and the intervening space largely consists of arid regions, where the population must always remain scattered. The zone of dis- affected states, which American adventurers had endeavoured to constitute in the north between Sonora and Tamaulipas, with the view of dividing the republic and Fig. 81.âPoLiTicAi Divisions of Mexico. Scale 1 : 30,000, 620 Miles. annexing it piecemeal, have resumed their place as integral members of the political organism. Thus Mexico and the United States seem destined to remain distinct ethnological domains. Every Mexican citizen is regarded as a freeman, with the right of choosing his own domicile, of associating with whomsoever he listeth, of coming and going whithersoever he pleaseth, of bearing arms and freely expressing his thoughts either verbally or through the press. No titles of nobility or hereditary preroga- tives are recognised, and all citizens are considered, in virtue of the constitution, as equal before the lavv. All are electors on the single condition of themselves signing their voting-papers. Even foreigners become citizens on acquiring pro- perty in the countr}', or when children are born to them, unless within a period of eight months they express a formal desire to keep their first Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that ma
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