lementary, each
doing an essential work in public culture.

[Illustration: THE SHIP OF COLUMBUS--THE SANTA MARIA CARAVEL.

(See pages 94, 216, and 282.)]

AMERICA--OPPORTUNITY.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, a noted American essayist, poet, and
speculative philosopher. Born in Boston, Mass., May 25, 1803; died,
April 27, 1882.

America is another name for opportunity.

THE SEQUEL OF THE DISCOVERY.

There is a Columbia of thought and art and character which is the last
and endless sequel of Columbus' adventure.--_Ibid._

YOUNG AMERICA.

ALEXANDER HILL EVERETT, an American scholar and diplomatist. Born
in Boston, Mass., 1792; died at Canton, China, May, 1847.

Scion of a mighty stock!
Hands of iron--hearts of oak--
Follow with unflinching tread
Where the noble fathers led.

Craft and subtle treachery,
Gallant youth, are not for thee;
Follow thou in words and deeds
Where the God within thee leads.

Honesty, with steady eye,
Truth and pure simplicity,
Love, that gently winneth hearts,
These shall be thy holy arts.

Prudent in the council train,
Dauntless on the battle plain,
Ready at thy country's need
For her glorious cause to bleed.

Where the dews of night distill
Upon Vernon's holy hill,
Where above it gleaming far
Freedom lights her guiding star,

Thither turn the steady eye,
Flashing with a purpose high;
Thither, with devotion meet,
Often turn the pilgrim feet.

Let the noble motto be:
God--the _country_--_liberty_!
Planted on religion's rock,
Thou shalt stand in every shock.

Laugh at danger, far or near;
Spurn at baseness, spurn at fear.
Still, with persevering might,
Speak the truth, and do the right.

So shall peace, a charming guest,
Dove-like in thy bosom rest;
So shall honor's steady blaze
Beam upon thy closing days.

RESPONSIBILITY.

EZRA STILES GANNETT, an American Unitarian divine. Born at
Cambridge, Mass., 1801; died, August 26, 1871. From a patriotic
address delivered in Boston.

The eyes of Europe are upon us; the monarch, from his throne, watches us
with an angry countenance; the peasant turns his gaze on us with joyful
faith; the writers on politics quote our condition as a proof of the
possibility of popular government; the heroes of freedom animate their
followers by reminding them of our success. At no moment of the last
half century has it been so