But the substantial wealth created by the improvement of the soil and the development of the resources of the country, is a still more important element in the result of this vast work." Thus, with the idea of becoming the carriers of the world, the highway of the nations, and the richest power on the globe, the American heart swells with pride, and mounts up with aspirations, to which there is no limit.
And the extent to which we have come up is further shown by the influence which we are exerting on other nations.

Speaking of America Mr.Townsend in the work above cited, p.

462, says:-- "Out of her discovery grew the European reformation in religion; out of our Revolutionary War grew the revolutionary period of Europe.

And out of our rapid development among great States and happy peoples, has come an immigration more wonderful than that which invaded Europe from Asia in the latter centuries of the Roman Empire.

When we raised our flag on the Atlantic, Europe sent her contributions; it appeared on the Pacific, and all orientalism felt the signal.