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Excerpt from Outre-Mer: Impressions of AmericaYes, this is the evident task of these three direful and merciless toilers, whom it is nevertheless vain to ban. For in the grand, irresistible forces of society, as in those of nature, there is a character of fatality which is just so far sacred. Lying beyond the foresight and control of man, they appear to us as mysterious emanations of the very principle from which all reality ¿ows. All that is irresistible and illimitable in them commands our acquiescence, as birth and death com mand it, as day and night, or as this sea, Whose waves beat upon this vessel on which I write these lines. In presence of such a necessity despair is impossible, until one has cal culated all the chances of a happier future, that is to say, until one has made certain that the effects produced by these implacable causes are always the same.Now one country has been found where these three forces, so destructive in our old world, have been called upon to con struct, out of whole cloth, a new universe. This country was a democracy from the very beginning, and a scientific democ racy, because to conquer this virgin soil it was necessary to make use of the most modern machines and methods of indus try. It was a country upon which the race problem was forced at its very origin, and against which it still continually brings up, being formed of the alluvium of all the nations Of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and forced to make it possible not only for Englishmen to live with Irishmen, and Germans with French men, but yellow and black men with men of white skins.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.