LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET, NEW YORK 1917 "Humanity demands that the horizontal should supersede its perpendicular subdivisions" "Periclean Athens, the Renaissance in Italy, and the Abolition of Slavery are as much our country as are England, France, Germany and the United States." "The aim of all education is to make ideals realities, with power to guide our thought and action." "After all, a man is religious in the degree in which, ultimate ideals are real to him." PREFACE IN the preface to my lecture on The Englishspeaking Brotherhood (delivered in July 1898 at the Imperial Institute, London, Lord Rosebery in the chair, and reprinted in my book The Expansion of Western Ideals and the World's Peace in 1899), occurs the following passage: "My greatest fear is that, from the nature of the subject and from the special conditions which evoked my remarks, I may not have been able on this occasion to give proper emphasis to my positive and friendly feeling for the European Powers that are essentially the bearers of Occidental Civilisation. In urging the coalition and combined action of England and the United States, I have but seized the opportunity offered of advocating the union of the two civilised Powers who are best fitted by present circumstance to draw nearer to each other, and who, from the fundamental constitution of their national life, are more closely related to one another than any other two Powers in the civilised world. Whatever negative attitude may be manifest in this lecture towards the other civilised Powers of the European Continent is due to the fact that these Powers have, by their recent action, shown themselves to be opposed to any closer union between |