The Nevada journal., 1851-09-18

horues is gone Dy forever. hat IL
was possible ut one time for this peo-
pie to be subdued by violence or TO
fall prey to the slower agonies of
decline, there can be little doubt In
! 1850, the United Provinces seemed
more likely to make n grand figure in
the worlds future history than Eng
land Their wealth activity and
maritime power were the most impos-
ing in Europe. They lad al The
carrying trade If the w. st in tlreir
faHtls. Their languagc vas spok sen
IN every port. Lin the great Orient
their empire was fixed ard their in.
fucncc was paramount. England was
then hardly known abroad. Her dif.
ficult idiom grated on foreign ears, and
her stormy coasts repelled the curios-
its of more cultivated travellers.
Had the thought of day arriving
when any single European language
would be spoken bv millions of per,
sqns, scattered over the great CONT
nents of the Garth from New Zealand
to the Ilcbrides, and from the Cape o.
/ Storms, to the Arctic Ocean, occurred
to any speculative mind, Dutch, moi
English, would probably have beer
the tongue to which he would have
assi gned the marvellous mission. Yet,
Holland has fallen nearly as much as
the Saxon has risen in the scale of
nations. Her idiom is acquired by
few. Her merchants conduct their
correspondence and transact their bu-
siness in Frspch Or in Eng ,sh. Even
her writer's have many Of them Cloth
their genius in a foreign garb. Cp
the other hand, our literature and Ian
guagc have passed cniifely out of this
danger.-Dptch, ike Welsh, Flemish,
grse, Basque, AID pther idioms, is
doomed to perish rs an intellectual
medium; but whatever may be thc
future changes of the world, the tongue
of Shakespeare and of Bacon is now
too firmly rooted ever to be torn
away.
No longer content with with mere
preservation, it aims at universal mas
terry. Gradually it is taking posses
sion OF all the ports and coasts Of the
world isolating all rival idoms, shut
ting them up from intercourse with
each othcr, making itself the channel
of every communication. III huns
dred points at once it plays the agres-
sor. 1t contends with Spanish on the
frontiers Of Ae4icQ; drives French
aad Russian bcfpra it ia Canad,t and
in the Northern Archipelago; super
sedcs Dutch at the Cape and Natal !;
elbows Greek and Italian at Malta and
the Ionian Islands; usurps the right
of Arabic at Sucz and Alcxandria /;
maintains itself s.Ipyama at Liberia,
Hongkong, jamaica and st. Helena !;
fights its way against multitudinous
and various dialects in the Rocky
Mountains, in Central America, on
the Gold Coast, in the interior OF Aus
tralia, and among the countless islands
in the Eastern Seas. No other Lap
guase is spreading in illis way. French
and German find students among cul-
iivatcd men: but English permanent
ly destroys and snpersedcs the idloins
with which it comes in contact,
The relative growth of the two great
Anglo Saxon States is noteworthy
In 1901 the population Of Great pr
tain was 10,9i2,GiG; in 1861 iiia' o'
the United States was l,1laI 6a' or
not quite half In 1850 thc popuia-
ton of the United States was Two
millions and a third more than that
of Great Britain in l0jl; f; at this h'o' +
mcnt it probably cxccads it by three
millions. The rate Of dcccnmal m
crease in this country is less than 10
per cent, while in America 1t Is about
80 per cent. In the great continental
States the rate is considerably lower
than in England. According TO the
progress of the last fifty years in
France and in America, the United
States will have thc larger Population
in 1870; in lu0G they viii exceed
those of England, France, Spain. Tor
tugal, Denmark, Sweden, and Swis<er-
land combined. Prudent statesmen
should bear these facts in mind. 1Na-
nv persons now alive may sec the time
when America will be OF more impor-
lance TO us, socially, commercially, and
politically, than all Europe put to-
gethcr. Old diplomatic traditions will
90 for little in the face Of q Transat-
lantic power numbering l00,00Q,OG0
of free and energetic men Of our own
race and blood. London Athenaum.
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