e these changes, to strong men and women there is challenge and
inspiration in them too. In place of old frontiers of wilderness, there
are new frontiers of unwon fields of science, fruitful for the needs of
the race; there are frontiers of better social domains yet unexplored.
Let us hold to our attitude of faith and courage, and creative zeal.
Let us dream as our fathers dreamt and let us make our dreams come
true.

"Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bear diadems and fagots in their hands.
To each they offer gifts after his will
Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that hold them all.
I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples and the day
Turned and departed silent. I, too late,
Under her solemn fillet, saw the scorn!"

What were America's "morning wishes"? From the beginning of that long
westward march of the American people America has never been the home of
mere contented materialism. It has continuously sought new ways and
dreamed of a perfected social type.

In the fifteenth century when men dealt with the New World which
Columbus found, the ideal of discovery was dominant. Here was placed
within the reach of men whose ideas had been bounded by the Atlantic,
new realms to be explored. America became the land of European dreams,
its Fortunate Islands were made real, where, in the imagination of old
Europe, peace and happiness, as well as riches and eternal youth, were
to be found. To Sir Edwin Sandys and his friends of the London Company,
Virginia offered an opportunity to erect the Republic for which they had
longed in vain in England. To the Puritans, New England was the new land
of freedom, wherein they might establish the institutions of God,
according to their own faith. As the vision died away in Virginia toward
the close of the seventeenth century, it was taken up anew by the fiery
Bacon with his revolution to establish a real democracy in place of the
rule of the planter aristocracy, that formed along the coast. Hardly
had he been overthrown when in the eighteenth century, the democratic
ideal was rejuvenated by the strong frontiersmen, who pressed beyond the
New England Coast into the Berkshires and up the valleys of the Green
Mountains of Vermont, and by the Scotch-Irish and German pioneers who
followe