THE HAND OF FELLOWSHIP
in 1891. Victor Hugo wrote: “A day will come when a cannflnhall. will ho exhibited in public museums, just as an instrument of torture is now, and people will ho amazed that such a tiling could over have boon. A day will come when these two immense groups, the linited States of America and the United States of Europe, will ho seen placed in the presence of each other, extending the hand of i'ellow- ; hJo across tin' ocean, exchanging their produce, their industries, vneir t.iicir genius, clearing the earth, peopling the desert, improving creation under the eve ol the Creator, and uniting, lor the good ol ail, those two Miosistihlci and infinite powers, the 11 .it<n iiitv of men ami the newer of (tod. Xn one since lias given this picture ol toe future more graphically than Hugo, says ‘‘Collier’s Weekly, Imt where one actually believed it then, thousands believe it notv.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 84, 29 May 1911, Page 4
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