Lanterna Rally

Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09-27

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781330613436

Excerpt from Why a World Centre of Industry at San Francisco Bay Why should there be in time to come a World Industrial Centre upon the shores of San Francisco Bay? Because Nature has prepared for it, Progress ordains it, and History confirms it. Because among states and nations California has a unique individuality which is sure to find expression as the border lands of the Pacific unfold into the higher civilized life. Because wherever is situated the Centre of Industry there will be found the Centre of Empire. Because while the nations of Europe with their Atlantic traffic decline, the ports of the Pacific will rise into prominence under the impulse of superior development. Because World Supremacy may thus be placed within reach of the future occupants of the First Port of the Pacific. Because as the Orient and Occident here meet geographically, they should join hands commercially as well, products from East and West standing side by side as a World Commercial Clearing House. Because if the Centre of Industry on the Pacific is not established by the people of San Francisco Bay, others elsewhere will occupy the field, and thenceforward dominate the great ocean, both economically and politically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.