The fountain : with jets of new meanings . ions of music, art,and spirituality, and the grandest conquests of inven-tion and labor ; all set in a framework of great naturalmagnificence and loveliness of scenery, at once a feastto the eye and a gladness to the heart, and constitutinga magnet of wonderful attractiveness to all the worldbesides. The history of mankinds pathway throughthe fields of its greatest achievements, and a perfectpicture of mankinds situation and highest develop-ments at this moment, would in their general featuresbe one and the same—a repetition of the old pioneering,a re
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . ions of music, art,and spirituality, and the grandest conquests of inven-tion and labor ; all set in a framework of great naturalmagnificence and loveliness of scenery, at once a feastto the eye and a gladness to the heart, and constitutinga magnet of wonderful attractiveness to all the worldbesides. The history of mankinds pathway throughthe fields of its greatest achievements, and a perfectpicture of mankinds situation and highest develop-ments at this moment, would in their general featuresbe one and the same—a repetition of the old pioneering,a recitation of the old wars and struggles, a rehearsal NATIONOIDS IN AMERICA. 67 of the old dramas and tragedies, a picturing of the oldkingdoms and subjective industries—the present differ-ing from the past only in the minor details of newactors, new dresses, new scenery, and new accessories,developing a variety of effects before an audience ofnew spectators who, for the time being, fancy theyare really beholding something entirely HU3IAN ROOTS AT THE BOTTOM OF SOCIETY. The positive pole of the great magnetic belt ofhighest fertility, after a lapse of thousands of years,has so revolved and augmented its prolificating quali-ties as to span the American continent. It extendsits great magnetic arms lovingly around a portion ofEurope, and clasps its hands tenderly over the nationsof the slumberous East. But the parallel lines nevervary as to their distance from each other, while yetthey are never alike in their relative positive andnegative polarities, nor in the marvellous effect they 68 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. exert in different parts of the world upon the feelings,propensities, thoughts, industries, and physical andspiritual developments of the races and individualswithin their reach.
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