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Excerpt from Why Americans Dislike England
It is foolish to attempt to deny the existence of this feeling, as some have done since the advent of a calmer mood. There are, no doubt, some parts of the land in which it is less strong than in others, and some circles in which it is scarcely felt at all. There are many thousands of us who recognize as among the strongest of ties those of common interest and relationship which bind us to the mother land. But it is possible to find in every part of the country and in every class in the community evidences enough of an almost inborn dislike of England. Men of the highest intelligence, of the widest knowledge of affairs, of the most judicial calmness, of cosmopoli tan sympathies, men of some or all of these traits, may be found in numbers who are profoundly in earnest in believing that we must be constantly on our guard 'against the designs of England, and who hold it practically certain, though they would regard a war with England as the greatest of misfortunes, that such a war is inevitable at some not distant date in the future. These men are no doubt a small minority only of their class, but as we go down towards the level of the average man, we may easily make sure that those who hold such opinions rapidly increase in numbers, and the fact is undeniable that the mass of Americans look upon England alone among all the nations of the world as the one which is naturally unfriendly to us, and which we must always regard with suspicion.
To those of us who stop to consider what the next century is likely to witness in the history of the world, these feelings seem fraught with possibilities of the greatest disaster to our nation, as well as to our race, but if we would avoid these consequences, the first necessity is to recognize the existence and to find out the sources of the feelings which would lead to them.
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