Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Uncle Sam's Panama Canal and World History, Accompanying the Panama Canal Flat-Globe: Its Achievement an Honor to the United States and a Blessing to the World
HE official seal of the Isthmian Canal Commission bears 6 the motto: The Land Divided. The World United.
That is a terse and accurate statement of what the Panama Canal accomplishes. It divides a hemisphere and by opening a new and shorter ocean highway brings the nations of the earth into closer intercourse with one another.
In supplying this highway the United States has conferred a benefit upon mankind which has few equals in human history, the full measure of which time alone can reveal.
Great wars change the map of the world by their victories, but few have made more radical and far reaching changes than will follow this momentous victory of peace - a victory for human welfare and progress.
The Vision of Columbus. - The Canal realizes the dream of Columbus in supplying by the hand of man that hidden strait which he sought so eagerly in the firm belief that it had been created by the Almighty as the pathway of the seas to the Indies. If he were living to-day and could visit the Atlantic entrance to the Canal he would find it placed in an inlet of the same shore which be scanned so closely nearly four centuries ago as he sailed along it in his search for the hidden strait.
Balboa and Magellan - His belief remained unshaken for many years after his death, and the search was continued by navigators from various nations of the old world who had been inspired by his discoveries to follow in his wake.
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