there is ten per cent of divergence, and this ten per cent I have emphasized even to exaggeration.  We know our friends by their slight differences in feature or expression, not by their common humanity.  Much of this divergence is already fading away.  Scenery and climate remain, but there is less elbow-room, and the unearned increment is disappearing.  That which is solid will endure; the rest will vanish.  The forces that ally us to the East are growing stronger every year with the immigration of men with new ideas.  The vigorous growth of the two universities in California insures the elevation as well as the retention of these ideas.  Through their influence California will contribute a generous share to the social development of the East, and be a giver as well as a receiver.

Today the pressure of higher education is greater to the square mile, if we pay use such an expression, than anywhere else in our country.  In no other state is the path from the farmhouse to the college so well trodden as here.  It requires no prophet to forecast the educational pre-eminence of California, for the basis of intellectual development is already assured.  But however close the alliance with Eastern culture, to the last, certain traits will persist.  California is the most cosmopolitan of all the states of the Union, and such she will remain.  Whatever the fates may bring, her people will be tolerant, hopeful, and adequate, sure of themselves, masters of the present, fearless of the future.

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