She is applying all the resources of science and skill and trained labour, which have been in long ages painfully acquired in old countries, to develop with great speed the richest soil and the richest mines of new countries; and the result is untold wealth.
Bagehot describes how America utilizes its resources to generate wealth rapidly, contrasting with older economies.
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And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.
He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.
The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.
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