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nil ( to be I th rreal Napol< n, who, realizing Hint p litical supremacy is lar jly, il DO1 wholly, dep < Q1 upon inl dustrial supremacy, called to his aid after the • tablishmenl of the celebrat I ft. nental blockade, all the greal minds of th institul and the academy, t and develop means whereby the tie of his impire could 1 wholly met by internal resources, and out of this grew many ol the great industries of Prance and th< world generally: the beet-su industry, the madder crop, the product ion of indigo, the development of the textile industries, particularly in linen and wool. This necessity of industrial supremacy to the assurance of the political supremacy has been recognized by other great statesmen and leaders. What Na] >leon saw. the gi German Kaiser of the pre nt day saw when he urged and insisted upon th iblishment of the engineering doctoral of the universities of his empire, and S r Morrill saw when he urg 1 upon the C tigress of the Unit d Stab's the ena men of the great land-grant law for the i tablishment of the coll s of agricultur and

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