When Danger Is Far Off We May

To Meet Roosevelt With All His Buoyant Sparkle, His Iridescence, Was Like Opening A Bottle Of Champagne.

Immense Deposits Of Kimmeridge Clay, Containing The Oil-bearing Bands Or Seams, Stretch Across England From Dorsetshire To Lincolnshire. [an Early Political Recognition Of The Native Resource. The Geological Survey Had Identified The Inflammable Oil Shale In Reports Since At Least 1888.]

Manifest Destiny Was On The March, And It Was Unfortunate That Mexico Stood In The Path.

Our Inheritance Of Well-founded, Slowly Conceived Codes Of Honor, Morals And Manners, The Passionate Convictions Which So Many Hundreds Of Millions Share Together Of The Principles Of Freedom And Justice, Are Far More Precious To Us Than Anything Which Scientific Discoveries Could Bestow.

It Is Not Given To Princes, Statesmen And Captains To Pierce The Mysteries Of The Future, And Even The Most Penetrating Gaze Reaches Only Conclusions Which, However Seemingly Vindicated At A Given Moment, Are Inexorably Effaced By Time.