NEPTUNE,
Not only the father of waters, but water himself, scarcely visible at best, “hangs out” all day, rising soon after the sun, and setting as follows: On the 1st, at 9:36 p. m.; on the 16th, at 8:40 p. m.; on the 30th, at 7:46 p. m. Has a retrograde motion of 58′ 16″; and on the 16th, at 8:42 p. m., is 2° 13′ north of the moon.
We have now passed the boundary of the first century of our existence as an independent nation. We are as a people engaged in a confused struggle with the problem of our own national self-consciousness. We want to know what is the spirit that is in us as a nation. We must know this in order to be properly master of ourselves and of our destiny. We must know this in order to know our place in universal history.—George S. Morris.