[A Man for the Ages by Irving Bacheller]@TWC D-Link bookA Man for the Ages CHAPTER V 5/49
By and by we shall see the ten million friends of America standing together as did the thousand friends of Thebes." "It's a great thought," said Abe. "No man can estimate the size of that mighty phalanx of friendship all trained in one school," Kelso went on.
"Two years ago the _Encyclopedia Britannica_ figured that the population of the United States in 1905 would be 168,000,000 people, and in 1966, 672,000,000.
Wealth, power, science, literature, all follow in the train of light and numbers.
The causes which moved the sceptre of civilization from the Euphrates to Western Europe will carry it from the latter to the New World." "They say that electricity and the development of the steam engine is going to make all men think alike," said Abe.
"If that's so Democracy and Liberty will spread over the earth." "The seed of Universal Brotherhood is falling far and wide and you can not kill it," Kelso continued.
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