Bishop Berkeley, prophetic soul, wrote his line, "Westward the course
of empire takes its way." The public has always edited it to read that
it is the "star of empire" which "takes its way" to the West. If one
will read this poem in connection with a government census map, he
will not fail to see how excellent is the amendment. Excellent census
map, which holds between its covers the greatest poem, the greatest
drama ever written! Excellent census map, which marks the center of
population of America with a literal star, and which, at the curtain
of each act, the lapse of each ten years, advances this star with the
progress of the drama, westward, westward!