| Man fulfills himself in the propagation of civilization, and the dominion of the Earth. From Sumer to Egypt, from China to Persia, from Athens to Rome, from Aztecs to Incas, as soon as man has more than a sufficiency, he begins building cities and developing the arts and sciences. Temples, palaces, public spas and private mansions, great fortifications, schools and libraries, merchants trading from far and wide, priesthoods and civil servants, all of these are erected to ennoble his existence and raise him above the beasts of the Earth. When man came to the Americas, he carved out of the Eastern seaboard something new, indebted to Europe but surpassing it, the proverbial "shining city upon the hill" that could show the way to uplift the commoner and raise a new aristocracy of talent and merit......... |
