"the logical purpose of our life is, as it should be, to form a confederation of insular peoples who will help the continental peoples of our Western hemisphere to complete civilization, extend it and make it sound: to complete civilization by giving the Latin branch of America the legal strength the Anglo-American branch has, to extend it by carrying it East, to make it sound by filling it with the youthful breath of new societies."
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letter to Horacio Vazquez (September 19, 1899)
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