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unlimited, provided one uses ordinary judg
ment and simple tact in the undertaking.
Furthermore less capital is required to start
an enterprise than in lands where competition
is keener, and less energy necessary to insure
success. The truth of these statements is
demonstrated most completely by the fact that
millions of Europeans—many of them unedu
cated and possessed of no great amount of
ability or money—have settled throughout
these lands and established themselves in
prosperous occupations.
The greatest possibilities exist along the
lines of general development. All these coun
tries are new; most of them practically unex
plored—many of them not even having their
boundary lines definitely established. Think
of what must be the opportunities in Brazil—
a country larger in area than the United
States, and supporting only 20,000,000 people
—or of Argentine, spreading over almost as
much territory as Europe, excepting Russia
and Austria-Hungary, with a population
slightly more than 7,000,000. It is to these