the grand results developed, and developing, the discovery ofAmerica by Columbus, a little over four hundred years ago, is setdown as the greatest event of all secular history. The progress of empire to this land zuas long ago expected. Sir Thomas Browne, in 1682, predicted the growth of a… … THE WORLD WONDERS, AND PROPHESIES 25 An idea, strange as it is visionary, has entered into the minds of the gen-erahty of mankind, that empire is travehng westward ; and everyone is lookingforward with eager and impatient expectation to that destined moment whenAmerica is to give the law to the…
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