s, they had never given thought. It is
true that in the large cities with congested population,
self-government as an educator does not always bring the most
desirable results, partly owing to the circumstance that
government, in its various branches, is there further removed
from the individual, so that he comes into contact with it and
exercises his influence upon it only through various, and
sometimes questionable, intermediary agencies which frequently
exert a very demoralising influence._"--Carl Schurz's
_Memoirs_, II, 79.

"_Anglo-Saxon Superiority! Although we do not all acknowledge
it, we all have to bear it, and we all dread it; the
apprehension, the suspicion, and sometimes the hatred provoked
by l'Anglais proclaim the fact loudly enough. We cannot go one
step in the world without coming across the Anglo-Saxon. . . .
He rules America by Canada and the United States; Africa by
Egypt and the Cape; Asia by India and Burmah; Australasia by
Australia and New Zealand; Europe and the whole world, by his
trade and industries and by his policy._"--M. Edmond Demolins
in _Anglo-Saxon Superiority_ "_A quoi tient la Superiorite des
Anglo-Saxons?_"

"_It may be asking too much, but if statesmanship could kindly
arrange it, I confess I should like to see, before I die, a
war in which Britain and the United States in a just quarrel
might tackle the world. After that we should have no more
difficulty about America. For if the Americans never forget an
injury, they ever remember a service._"--The late G. W.
Steevens in _The Land of the Dollar_.

The Twentieth Century
American

CHAPTER I

AN ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE

The Avoidance of Entangling Alliances--What the Injunction
Meant--What it Cannot Mean To-day--The Interests of the United
States, no less than those of England, Demand an Alliance--But
Larger Interests than those of the Two Peoples are Involved--
American Responsiveness to Ideals--The Greatest Ideal of All,
Universal Peace: the Practicability of its Attainment--
America's Responsibility--Misconceptions of the British
Empire--Germany's Position--American Susceptibilities.

The American nation, for all that it is young and lacks reverence, still
worships the maxims and rules of conduct laid down by the Fathers of the
Repu