The mines yielded incredible quantities of gold, iron, coal.

Countless churches, colleges, and public schools, testified that a moral influence vivified this material activity.

Locomotion was effectually provided for.

The railways exceeded in aggregate length those of all Europe combined.
In 1873 the aggregate length of the European railways was sixty-three thousand three hundred and sixty miles, that of the American was seventy thousand six hundred and fifty miles.

One of them, built across the continent, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
But not alone are these material results worthy of notice.