July 1896

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Articles
A Century’s Progress in Science
“The world is in a process of development, and … gradually, as advancing knowledge has enabled us to take a sufficiently wide view of the world, we have come to see that it is so.”
The United States and the Anglo-Saxon Future
“By judicious action, in the right way and at the right time, we may assume for ourselves that position of leadership in organization which England hesitates to take, and thus to make the world-empire of the Anglo-Saxon a certainty.”
The Real Problems of Democracy
“The history of nations is the history of incessant attempts, fortunate or unfortunate, to better themselves.”
To the Housatonic at Stockbridge
Young America in Feathers
Recent Historical Biography
Comment on New Books
A City by Starlight
Who Was the Imitator,--Dickens or Thackeray?
The Area of Patriotism
Cuculus Parlorensis
The Real Paul and Virginia
Arbitration and Our Relations With England
Letters of D. G. Rossetti: Iii. 1855-1857
The Old Things
Deus Absconditus
The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Speculations of a Story-Teller
Confessions of Public School Teachers
