New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-12-05
New York Tribune.
1879.

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France a Republic-England and Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas
Spain swaying in the neryeless grasp OF ruler
too good for a King and too weak for Repub:
lican' who is unable to govern the grea, island
that blocks the entrance to our Gulf OF Mexico,
and equally unable to give it up-the German
speaking peoples agitated by a new Protestant
ism, separating from the See of Rome on the
dogma of Papal Infallibiity and assuming to
recognize the ''Old Catholics the whole Con-
tinent pervaded by the intellectual ferment that
comes of the conflict between old ideas philo-
sophical, theological, material, and the advances
Of Physical Science-Russia and Great Britain
running race for the final gains that shall
determine Asiatic supremacy-China seeming
ready to abandon her advances and reclose her
half opened gates-Japan aboiiShiRg feudstsm
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