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MODERN GERMANY:

HER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, HER POLICY, HER AMBITIONS, AND THE CAUSES OF HER SUCCESS.

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In 'THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER.' November 1906 THE FUTURE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

THE ABSORPTION OF HOLLAND BY GERMANY.
THE FUTURE OF ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS.
CHURCH AND STATE IN RUSSIA.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE 'MOLOCH OF FREE-TRADE.'
THE GERMAN DANGER TO SOUTH AFRICA.

THE COLLAPSE OF RUSSIA-THE INDEMNITY DUE TO
JAPAN.

October July

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October 1902 OUR UNREADY ARMY AND SOME HISTORIC PARALLELS.

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THE ANTI-BRITISH MOVEMENT IN GERMANY.

THE RISE AND DECLINE

OF

THE NETHERLANDS

A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY

AND A STUDY IN PRACTICAL STATESMANSHIP

BY

J. ELLIS BARKER

'History is Philosophy teaching by example.'

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS: De Arte Rhetorica, xi. 2

If we compare the present time with former ages, we find that the same
tendencies and desires have at all times governed states and peoples. There-
fore we may easily foresee the future of any state by applying the lessons of
the past to the present, and guided by historical experience we may be able
not only to take such precautions against future dangers as have been taken
in former times, but also to devise effective new measures in accordance
with the special requirements of the case.'

MACHIAVELLI: La Prima Deca di Tito Livio, 1. 39

'If my History should be declared to be useful by those who desire to
obtain an exact picture of the events of the past in order to be able rightly
to forecast the events of the future-for in this world of ours the things
to come will be like, or almost like, the things that have been-I shall be
content.'-THUCYDIDES i. 22.

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