Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 44: A Monthly Review, July-December, 1898 Every (one remembers now that for years past the American people have shown increasing Signs Of discontent with a rather undistinguished place in the scale of nations. Boundless energy, ingenuity, vigour, audacity, a vast population in a great range of country, and yet little that could be called national distinction were it continued for a thousand years. The diffusion of enlightenment is not all an affair of conquest and colonisation. Religion and philosophy agree that the American Republic has within its own pale opportunity and space enough to work out all the nobler ambitions, including those that need the aid of great wealth or that great wealth rewards. 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.