New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-03-20
New York Tribune.
1873.

gradually permested with Republican IDEAS
Spain ssaJiug in the uerveless grasp Of a ruler |
too good for King and too weak for Repab- 1
hcan, who is unable TO govern the great island /
that blocks the entrance 70 our Gulf Of Mexico, |
and equally unable to give it up-the German.
ism, separating from the See Of Rome on the 4
dogma Of Papal Infalhbili,y and assuming to 1
recognize the "0ld Catholics whole Con. |
tinent pervaded BY the intellectual ferment that
comes Of the conflict between old ideas, philo- |
sophical, theoloeeal, material, and the advances
of Physical Seienee-Russia and Great Britain |
running n race for the final gains that shall !
determine Asiatic experimentation seeming |
ready TO abandon her advances and reclose her !
half opened gates-Japan abolishing feudalfsm |
and inviting Western civilization TO irradiate
Western commerce to enrich her long.hid
empire-sach are phases ofthe news from abroad
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