But in the first place it is necessary to review the situation, such as it is at the present moment: Firstly, Europe, which was the creditor of all other continents, has now become their debtor.

In pre-war times the ancient continent supplied new continents and new territories with a hardy race of pioneers, and held the record as regards population, both adult and infantile, the prevalence of women over men being especially noted by statisticians.

Is it any wonder that this principle of internecine warfare and rapacity which rules in our midst, this vulgar greed, which loads people's bodies with jewels and furs and their tables with costly food, regardless of those from whom these comforts are snatched, should eventuate ultimately in rapacity and violence on the vast stage of the drama of nations, and in red letters of war and conflict written across the continents?

When seas and continents shall lie between us The wider space the betterwe may find In such a course fit links of sympathy, An incommunicable rivalship Maintained, for peaceful ends beyond our view.

The Turks were swept out of all their European possessions except for Constantinople itself; and they yielded to a peace which left them nothing of Europe except the mere shore line where the continents come together.

And one night Billy had me meet him up by the cemeteryhe came disguised in long black whiskersand he told me that Potts was James Carruthers, better known to the police of two continents as 'Smooth Jim,' wanted for robbing the post-office at Lima, Ohio.

"I don't call myself that," said the Professor modestly, "but I may claim to have discovered pathogenic continents.

There are continents and seas and islands thereit is not a dead, dry surface like the moonand it has clouds and rains and snows and seasons, just as we have, and of the same intensity as ours.

They form an arch between the two continents of America, and extend from the Gulf of Florida to that of Venezuela.

The Gulf of Mexico almost intersects the two continents; and is, in fact, an extensive sea.

"As all land is surrounded by water, and continents differ from islands merely in point of size, and as Australia or New Holland is in extent as large as Europe, and ten times larger than either Borneo or New Guinea, it is certainly more proportionate with continents than with islands; and it seems reasonable to class Australia with the former rather than with the latter.

"As all land is surrounded by water, and continents differ from islands merely in point of size, and as Australia or New Holland is in extent as large as Europe, and ten times larger than either Borneo or New Guinea, it is certainly more proportionate with continents than with islands; and it seems reasonable to class Australia with the former rather than with the latter.

6 If a globe is turned in just the right way, nothing can be seen but the Pacific and the far off edges of continents.

He never ceased to marvel at the amazing fact that he, poor, scoffed at or pitied, surrounded by difficulties of every sort, should have been chosen to wrest the palm from the hands of trained scientists of two continents.

It is over these transits that a large proportion of the trade and travel between the European and Asiatic continents is destined to pass.

Against its wall were braced the dear old clock and conveniences for holding dishes, and the few keepsakes which had shared the wanderings of their owners on two continents.

[Footnote 1: Notice that the two continents begin to take shape, and that as the result of Magellan's voyage is not generally known, North America is placed very near to Java.]

2. In 1513 exploration of the interior of the two continents began.

[Footnote BN: Kentucky is the State of his birth and family, Arkansas the State of his adoption, and "The Three Continents" the fruit of his pen.]

In a space as large as four continents, the polyps, strengthened by the lukewarm water, are building up thousands of atolls, ring-shaped islands, reefs and submarine pillars that, when united together by the work of a thousand years, are going to create a new land, an exchange continent in case the human species should lose its present base in some cataclysm of Nature.

The world (by which we are to understand, not only the visible, but also imaginary continents depicted with the most extravagant fancy, heavens and hells of the Brahmanical Cosmology, extended by new discoveries) is uncreated.

As it is in the battle, so it is in the infinitely greater contests where the fields of fight are continents, and the ages form the measure of time.

The only nations that profited by the expansion beyond the seas, and that built up in alien continents vast commonwealths with the law, the language, the creed, and the culture, no less than the blood, of the parent stocks, were those that during the centuries of expansion, possessed power on the ocean,Spain, Portugal, France, Holland, and, above all, England.

Near a quarter of a century ago the principle was distinctly announced to the world, in the annual message of one of my predecessors, that The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

In my annual message of December, 1845, I declared that Near a quarter of a century ago the principle was distinctly announced to the world, in the annual message of one of my predecessors, that "the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."