n only widen the
intellectual horizon of the people, help to lay the foundations of a
better industrial life, show them new goals for endeavor, inspire them
with more varied and higher ideals.

The Western spirit must be invoked for new and nobler achievements. Of
that matured Western spirit, Tennyson's Ulysses is a symbol.

". . . I am become a name
For always roaming with an hungry heart,
Much have I seen and known . . .
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch, where thro'
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!

* * * * *

And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a shining star
Beyond the utmost hound of human thought.
. . . Come my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the Western stars until I die

* * * * *

To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."

FOOTNOTES:

[290:1] Commencement Address, University of Washington, June 17, 1914.
Reprinted by permission from _The Washington Historical Quarterly_,
October, 1914.

XII

SOCIAL FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY[311:1]

The transformations through which the United States is passing in our
own day are so profound, so far-reaching, that it is hardly an
exaggeration to say that we are witnessing the birth of a new nation in
America. The revolution in the social and economic structure of this
country during the past two decades is comparable to what occurred when
independence was declared and the constitution was formed, or to the
changes wrought by the era which began half a century ago, the era of
Civil War and Reconstruction.

These changes have been long in preparation and are, in part, the result
of world-wide forces of reorganization incident to the age of steam
production and large-scale industry, and, in part, the result of the
closing of the period of the colonization of the West. They have been
prophesied, and the course of the movement partly described by students
of American development; but after all, it is with a shock that the
people of the United