Excerpt from The United States: An Account of Past and Contemporary Condition and Progress
The student of some lands anticipates no particular charm in their contemporary history and life, and, therefore, he fasten upon the long past as the time which offers the greatest instruction and pleasure. This is true of Spain and Greece, whose "dead past" is even more vital with power than the living present. They influence the world more by what they have done than by what they are now doing.
There are other lands, hoary with age, whose early history has scarcely a page to arouse enthusiasm, but whose modern day is their brightest and best. Witness a notable illustration in Japan, whose emergence into the modern world and whose marvelous strides are all within the memory of living men and women of seventy years.
There is still another class, whose beginning and their present equally move us by their wonderful record. In this class our own country is the most conspicuous example in all the world to-day. It is like an oak in its prime, - still sound at the root strong in body, and beautiful in its spreading green top. Such a land has had a golden age in every decade; sometimes in the matchless Plymouth and other colony days, or in the Revolution, or the Civil War, or in the splendors of to-day.
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