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do not speak at all of the morality of the action, I only speak of the fact she has found admission into China, and has carried the Christian religion and the Protestant faith to the doors of three hundred millions of people.

It has been said that whosoever would see the Eastern world before it turns into a Western world must make his visit soon, because steamboats and omnibuses, commerce, and all the arts of Europe, are extending themselves from Egypt to Suez, from Suez to the Indian seas, and from the Indian seas all over the explored regions of the still farther East.

Now, gentlemen, I do not know what practical views or what practical results may take place from this great expansion of the power of the two branches of Old England. It is not for me to say. I only can see that on this continent all is to be Anglo-American from Plymouth Rock to the Pacific seas, from the North Pole to California. That is certain; and in the Eastern world, I only see that you can hardly place a finger on a map of the world, and be an inch from an English settlement.

Gentlemen, if there be anything in the supremacy of races, the experiment now in progress will develop it. If there be any truth in the idea that those who issued from the great Caucasian fountain, and spread over Europe, are to react on India and on Asia, and to act on the whole Western world, it may not be for us, nor our children, nor our grandchildren, to see it, but it will be for our descendants of some generation to see the extent of that progress and dominion of the favored races.

For myself, I believe there is no limit fit to be assigned to it by the human mind, because I find at work everywhere, on both sides of the Atlantic, under various forms and degrees of restriction on the one hand, and under various degrees of motive and stimulus on the other hand, in these branches of a common race, the great principle of the freedom of human thought, and the respectability of individual character. I find everywhere an elevation of the character of man as man, an elevation of the individual as a component part of society. I find everywhere a rebuke of

the idea that the many are made for the few, or that government is anything but an agency for mankind. And I care not beneath what zone, frozen, temperate, or torrid; I care not of what complexion, white or brown; I care not under what circumstances of climate or cultivation-if I can find a race of men on an inhabitable spot of earth whose general sentiment it is, and whose general feeling it is, that government is made for man-man, as a religious, moral, and social being-and not man for government, there I know that I shall find prosperity and happiness.

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WORK AND HABITS

BY ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE

Every man's problem is how to be effective. Consciously or unconsciously, the question you are asking yourself is, "How shall I make my strength count for most in this world of effort?" And this is the question which every one of us ought to ask himself. But not for the purpose of mere selfish gain: not to get money for the sake of money, or fame for the sake of fame, but for the sake of usefulness in the world; for the sake of helpfulness to those we love and of all humanity. Selfishness poisons all it touches, and make all achievement dead-sea fruit which turns to ashes on the lips.

So the great question, "How shall I make the most of myself," which every worker in the world is asking, must be nobly asked, and therefore unselfishly asked if you would have it wisely answered. There are two words that solve this query of your destiny, and those two words are work and habits.

I know that I am addressing men who toil; and I have reached an age where I consider no one but workers worth while. But by those who toil, I do not mean only those who work with their hands. I mean those who work with their brain, as well. I mean the engineer who drives a locomotive, but also the inventor, who created it; the mason and mechanic who erects a building, and also the thoughtful man who conceived it, and the energetic man who made it possible; the printer who puts upon the page the words of useful books, but also the poet who dreams the dreams that printer reproduces, the novelist who enchants our weary hours, the economist who in

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