Excerpt from Americans of to-Day and to-Morrow And just that is the settled conclusion of the twentieth-century American. Put the plummet of your inquiry into the depths of a street-car driver's intelligence and you will find that his profoundest belief is that Americans are the greatest people in the world. 'make like experiment with the farmer boy, and you will find a like result. Put the test to some merchant who has created a business, great or small; there, the same answer will speak to you. 'take the coldest banker in the land, and you will find his greatest pride, exceeding the pride of gold, is that he is a citizen - a living part - of the domi nant nation of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.