ation
can grasp, will ensure failure on failure,--follies, fanaticisms,
disappointments, even crimes, bloodshed, hasty furies, as of children
baulked of their holiday.

But it will be at last fulfilled, filled full, and perfected; not perhaps
here, or among our peoples, or any people which now exist on earth: but
in some future civilisation--it may be in far lands beyond the sea--when
all that you and we have made and done shall be as the forest-grown
mounds of the old nameless civilisers of the Mississippi valley.

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Footnotes:

{71} Black, translator of Mallett's _Northern Antiquities_,
Supplementary Chapter I., and Rafn's _Antiquitates Americanae_.

{91} On the Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz.

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