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pirits to America, to become leading statesmen, inventors, journ

nd financiers. In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous ma

eastward12 into Central Asia, just as France wa

solidifying13 her first gains on the littoral14 of northern Afric

n England the fierce fervor15 of the Chartist moveme

ith its violent rhetoric16 as to the rights of man, was sobering down

nd passing pervasively17 into numerous practical sche

r social and political amelioration, constituting in their entirety a mo

ound change throughout every part of the national life.

nto such times Thomas Alva Edison was born, and his relati