New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-09-24
New York Tribune.
1874.

France a Republic-England and Germany
gradually permeated with Republican ideas =
Spain swaying in the nerveless grasp of a ruler
too good for King and too weak for Repub.
lican. who is unable to govern the great 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 Infallibility and assuming 10
recognize the sold 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 reoiose her
half opened gates-Japan aholishing feudalism
and inviting Western civilization to irradiate
Western commerce to enrich her long hidden
empire such are phases of the news from abroad
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