An ancient home of man, the home, too, of beautiful things--buildings, pictures, old places, old traditions, dead civilizations--the place where man rose from barbarism to civilization--it is now bankrupt, its best young men dead, its system of politics and of government a failure, its social structure enslaving and tyrannical--it has little help for us.

The American spirit, which is the spirit that concerns itself with making life better for the whole mass of men--that's at home at its best with us.

The whole future of the race is in the new countries--our country chiefly.

This grows on one more and more and more.

The things that are best worth while are on our side of the ocean.