The Truly Practical Man, Necessarily an Educated Man: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 5, 1867 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Silliman, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330984633 ISBN 13: 9781330984635

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Truly Practical Man, Necessarily an Educated Man: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 5, 1867

From the combination of such elements of power and progress, we have the right to expect great results for humanity nor shall we be disappointed. So long as California produced and exported almost exclusively the precious metals, importing nearly all the ordinary articles of consumption as well as most of the luxuries of life, the development of her other resources was slow. But the progress Of the State in wealth, intelligence and population has now placed society on a basis of greater stability. The introduction of railways begins already to open up agricultural resources before unavailable, and invites to fertile farms and pi'ospei'olls homes a new class of settlers, whose presence insures stability, intelligence, and a varied industry. Manufactures naturally follow in the train of social and agricultural development, and it is easy to see the importance which this series Of changes assumes, in its effect upon the immediate future of the State. The general fall of the rates paid for the use of money bears testimony to the accumula~ tion of capital, and points significantly to the new avenues of pros perity which are thus made available to all who choose to enter upon them.

It is plain, even to a person not professionally commercial, that the city of San Francisco is fast assuming a position essentially cosmopolitan, as the center of lines of great power and influence in the afiairs of the world. We cannot overlook the remarkable future which seems now to be almost a present reality in her Oriental rela tions, so novel to our American ideas. It appears that already she has given pause to the long-established course of commercial exchange, and that the silver which has found its way hitherto by London or Paris to the East Indies, is now rapidly changing its course in favor of a direct communication with China and India.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330984633
• ISBN 13: 9781330984635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28