Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The United States of Europe on the Eve of the Parliament of Peace
In the year 1898 two strange things happened. It is difficult to say which was more unexpected.
In the West the American Republic, which for more than a hundred years had made as its proudest boast its haughty indifference to the temptation of territorial conquest, suddenly abjured its secular creed, and con cluded a war upon which it had entered with every protestation of absolute disinterestedness by annexa tions so sweeping as to invest the United States with all that was left of the heritage of imperial Spain.
In the East a Sovereign autocrat, commanding the bayonets of four millions of trained soldiers and the' implicit obedience of one hundred and twenty millions of loyal subjects, amazed and bewildered mankind by formally and publicly arraigning the armaments of the modern world, and summoning a Conference of all the Powers to discuss practical measures for abating an evil which threatened to land civilized society in the abyss.
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