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Rh a hundred years. Our transportation system, with a capitalization which is the lowest in any civilized country in the world, with the lowest rates, and with the highest efficiency of service and ability to meet the demands of business, is second to none. An elaborate system of public education has been built up, and is aided by many universities and schools created by private gifts, which rank with the best institutions of learning in other countries. In the common things of life, corresponding progress has been made, and the average American lives better, profits more from his labor, and has greater opportunities of advancement than the citizen of any other country.

In all this wonderful progress, there is one weakness which many Americans realize. Our progress has been largely material, and public opinion has been busy with purely material things. In transportation, business, invention, and the spread of learning, our achievements are equal to or superior to those in foreign countries. What we have done in one hundred years is due largely to the tireless energy, Rh