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x individual man. Negative this proposition and the universe of man, of humanity, is ended.

All other animals in pairs, families, or groups may be independent; men and likewise nations never can be. The chick chips its shell and instantly picks its food. Man must be led and taught. Animals have instinct. Men are denied it that they may know their fellow men.

Independence, individually and nationally, is passing away. The inventions, the mechanism, the arts, for man's progress are all here. The way is now open. Human slavery, serfdom, peonage, are passing. Democracy is rising. The last great struggle is on and fourteen nations and forty problems are in it. But it is all one, human freedom that man may know his fellow and that mutual helpfulness may arise, individually, collectively, nationally.

Independence Day must take on a new meaning. National independence is hereafter possible only by national interdependence.

America was opened in the desire for mental freedom. Here was born political freedom, destined to encircle the world in little more than a hundred years. Here, too, were struck down the shackles from human hands laboring in slavery. From freedom of hand and mind America must