There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
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The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier but the world is making progress, we are leaving behind the barbarism of war as civilization advances, it will learn less of war, and concern itself more with the arts of peace, and for these the massive battle-ax must be wrought into tools of finer temper.
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It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
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If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
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America is to have the great preponderance of numbers and of wealth, and by the logic of events will follow the scepter of controlling influence.
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