text:  Again in the other element of colonization races of men become known for what they are; the furnace has tried them all; the truth has justified itself; and if as at some great memorial review of armies some solemn _armilustrum_ the colonizing nations since 1500 were now by name called up--France would answer not at all; Portugal and Holland would stand apart with dejected eyes--dimly revealing the legend of _Fuit Ilium_; Spain would be seen sitting in the distance and like Judaea on the Roman coins weeping under her palm-tree in the vast regions of the Orellana; whilst the British race would be heard upon every wind coming on with mighty hurrahs full of power and tumult as some "hail-stone chorus "[13] and crying aloud to the five hundred millions of Burmah China Japan and the infinite islands to make ready their paths before them