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Show Willia:n A. Phillips. grow·m g a bovc thrm b(T oes to prove thnt nearly two C<'nluri l's. must 11'a ve c1 .·l p:·--c t1 · incc th y crumble<1 to du ~t, or were. .l< ·ft 1 I · , r,,, 'lll t1 1'1 to tc::;o atlOn . .~. .. ". "-: rott en oO 'J':UHknr ha. ' l l'lL n.o ltVlll,!_!, YO!· C OL' lllOI..•l 1 l<•tOi'' ·tcy to the race. H ow lffilH'C.:; . tve • tho l e:-;son t o u::,s ' v}1o .-~. 1·e hewinOo' out a brrrcnt young mptrc from the prairies and forests of the ame continent. AmonO'::;t the boa~ ted clements of our "great Age," we fr - tl 0 quen y ] lCu...l.. of' "t11c race" "the conquering Anglo-Saxon < ' ' • • • race!" Two centuries ngo there was n~.t qlllt~ three mdlrons of the An!!lo-Snxon race on earth. Stxty-Cight years ago there was ~nly scYcntcen million . Thirt y-five y<'ar · ago it had swell ·<l to thirty-four million . In 18;)0 it had in cr ·a:-;cd to fifty-~ ix million::~. "\Vhcn tllc next. <' ·n~us of Great Britain, :11lc1 the ne.·t year's census of this country (the two great branche of the race•) are taken, th('Y will undoubtedly cxlribit a joint population of seventy millions, p<·rh:~ps mon•. "\Vhat an amazing g rowth of power in two Cf•nturi e~. AtHl now there j::5 not a sea but i · whitPncd by the <'Ornm ercc of the AnO'lo-Saxon rare. At c,·ery point her bngll:lg'(', ltct· cu:toms~ her Cnterprisr, arC th ~tggrCS~Ol's, :lllll }>II ·h IJefore them all obstacles. Talk of the" uec 'ssity of ab:-;orbing the smaller race·." "\Vho can limit the JWwc·r, or guarantee the strength, of any portion of the human f:11nily ? Can we wonder that from the family of Jacob ~ prang, in a few ecnturics, a race numerous as the sanus of tire sea ~ b ore; whieh ro. c to g reatnc s while other nntions cr11mblcd. In. pirct~ wi~h .I he grand idea and purpose of its r eligion, it pr '~~ed ltTC~ I :.; trbly onwards untilluxut-y, and sclfishnc s, nnd idolatry, weakt'ncd its g reat purpo. e, when it dwin<ll•d awny until it ~ few se;tttcred frarrm ent · were lost, in the ·tronger and deeper wnvc 0 of humanity, that in turn aspired to aecompli.-h moral aud int •llectual triumphs. Nearly all the great germ:=; of civilization lrn:vc been budd< ·d on n foreign clime and stock. For the great ei vili zation <>i' the Hebrews, the Canaanites were cast out and subdued. Williazn A. Phillips. The Gl'eece of art and r efinem ent came from a foreign graft on a . tun ted sto ·k. I t need~ not the poC'tical ·tory of ~ucas to tell us of the nucl u.~ round wltieh clustered the Homan Empire. It wa ~ t.hc same wilh Guth•tO'' 1'1 1 e · t ~ < o · an eren Briton was fir t conque red by the Homan, and th en the coun-try was succe ·sively overrun with the D·1nc t1 1 e S· 1 x d • , • , on, an the Norman. Although the Saxon pretlominatcu, it wa, fi·om the minglc_d _c!emcuts of all these t.hat sprang the germ of the modern CtvtlJzed Anglo-Saxon. The civili7.ation of this country is the lat e. t str·iking illu t ration of the fact. \Vhat h:ls beco~nc o~ tlr_e Spaniard ? At the time of the di covery of Amcnc~, Sparn was the only nation jn Europe that had a reprcs •ntattvc body of ln.w maker:; worthy of the name. ' ince tha.t ti~c it has lost its purpose of workiuO' for llllman ity, and Jut dw111dled away, wlrile the footsteps of the progr·c sivo Anglo axon haYe been steadily advaneinO' on its dccatlcnco ancI rum. . 0 \Vbencc cam' the nr t·ve of the Anglo-Saxon power? \V c ltave s •en that it Ita" .·prung to its gr •at strength within two ccnturi •:-;. "\Vhat ccds were ~own juRt uefore tltese two centurie. b<•gan ? You have heard of the Ref(>rmation. You Ita,'e hea rd of Protestant ism. Y<'~, that word l'RO'I'E!::!T, is embedded a the backbone of the civ il ized Anglo-Saxon. It doc~ not rder merely to r eligion, mn ·h less to any one church. It was the protest of humanity against despoti. m. A prote. t again~t bigotry, and wrong, and , lave ry, nnd darknc ·s, and con ' rvatism, and moth-rat •n dignitic., and <.Iu. tco, ·ercd conuption, and in f.·wor of tile man -hi ~ pro(Tr·cs 1~ .t s duty, and hi. nlvation. Old dignitic. gre'w on the cru. hcd' smcws of fiJC man. The " div ine right" of the powerful to tt·ar~ple on t1tc weak, found then, as it once more docs now, a pt·testhood corrupt enough to lend it the sanct ion of what they call Religion. Tl1c doct.rine wa. , in the woru::; of J\fcKay, - |