tiful. Thus does a Mexican leave the door open to the foreigner.

CONCLUSION.

Such are some of the prophetic voices about America, differing in
character and importance, but all having one augury, and opening one
vista, illimitable in extent and vastness. Farewell to the idea of
Montesquieu, that a republic can exist only in a small territory.

Ancient prophecy foretold another world beyond the ocean, which in the
mind of Christopher Columbus was nothing less than the Orient with its
inexhaustible treasures. Then came the succession of prophets, who
discerned the future of this continent, beginning with that rare genius,
Sir Thomas Browne, who, in the reign of Charles II., while the
settlements were in their infancy, predicted their growth in power and
civilization; and then that rarest character, Bishop Berkeley, who, in
the reign of George I., while the settlements were still feeble and
undeveloped, heralded a Western empire as "Time's noblest offspring."

These voices are general. Others more precise followed. Turgot, the
philosopher and minister, saw in youth, with the vision of genius, that
all colonies must at their maturity drop from the parent stem, like ripe
fruit. John Adams, one of the chiefs of our own history, in a youth
illumined as that of Turgot, saw the predominance of the Colonies in
population and power followed by the transfer of empire to America; then
the glory of Independence and its joyous celebration by grateful
generations; then the triumph of our language; and, finally, the
establishment of our republican institutions over all North America.
Then came the Abbe Galiani, the Neapolitan Frenchman, who, writing from
Naples while our struggle was still undecided, gayly predicts the total
downfall of Europe, the transmigration to America, and the consummation
of the greatest revolution of the globe by establishing the reign of
America over Europe. There is also Adam Smith, the illustrious
philosopher, who quietly carries the seat of government across the
Atlantic. Meanwhile Pownall, once a Colonial Governor and then a member
of Parliament, in successive works of great detail, foreshadows
independence, naval supremacy, commercial prosperity, immigration from
the Old World, and a new national life, destined to supersede the
systems of Europe and arouse the "curses" of royal ministers. Hartley,
also a member of Parliament, and the British negotiator who signed the
definitive treaty of Independenc