whose unity has been purchased and made sure by such a cost of blood and treasure as was never poured out upon the altar of a nation’s life before, and one sees a people intelligent, resourceful, and hugely vital, having much to learn and surely learning much, assimilating foreign elements with miraculous swiftness and growing stronger thereby, living laborious days wherein the rewards are to thrift and energy and enterprising skill, knowing no defeat and unacquainted with the sense of fear, and awakening year by year to a fuller consciousness of national life and of the glorious mission of high destiny. And with increasing knowledge the love of country grows until all thought of worth in her is merged and lost in reverence, and love of her becomes a summons to live worthy of the name and calling of an American. THE END. _Transcriber’s Notes_ A number of typographical errors have been corrected silently. Archaic spellings have been retained. Cover image is in the public domain. Variations in spelling of hyphenated words have been normalized to a single form when there either was a preponderance of one version or the first version to appear was used. The snip of Greek "Θἁλαττα!" translates to "The Sea!" in English.