"Thanks to the California gold and the tireless energy of the Yankees, both coasts of the Pacific Ocean will soon be as populous, as open to trade and as industrialized, as the coast from Boston to New Orleans is now.
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And then the Pacific Ocean will have the same role as the Atlantic has now and the Mediterranean had in the antiquity and the Middle Ages—that of the great water highway of world commerce and the Atlantic will decline to the status of an inland see, like the Mediterranean."
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Marx and Engels, Neue Rheinesche Zeiting Revue, May-October 1850.
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