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of recognizing you all, and in her ample lap you shall nestle, as your progenitors did in the earlier times, amid the caressings and benedictions of love-love
-love power, better than science, better than art, better than wealth because it is love which answers for the usefulness and right work of all these, and “ which passeth understanding."
Trade relations between the United States of America and India. -On behalf of my people especially the Bombay Marine Association, a society for the encouragement of commercial, industrial education in India, I offer you my heartfelt thanks, for extending to use this indication from the Philadelphia Commercial Museum to participtae in the deliberations of this Congress. The gentlemen who represent the Philadelphia Commercial Museum had indeed no authority, as King or Emperor, to command us to attend, but they recognize the fact that nations should once and for all stop that barbarous practice of war for deciding political problems of the day. Not only that but that they should also stop the commercial warfare that is rampant in civilized countries.
One of the ablest speakers of the United States said: “In commerce there should be friendly rivalry, but no war." We recognize the principle that international conference in matters commercial has been a dream of philosophers, and it is highly creditable to
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