This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX A New World Policy Admiral Dewey's guns at Manila did more than to sink the Spanish fleet; they. battered down our Chinese wall of political isolation. Washington in his Farewell Address laid down a rule touching our foreign relations, which was eminently wise for our national infancy, but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX A New World Policy Admiral Dewey's guns at Manila did more than to sink the Spanish fleet; they. battered down our Chinese wall of political isolation. Washington in his Farewell Address laid down a rule touching our foreign relations, which was eminently wise for our national infancy, but which, by reason of our veneration for its author, has been glorified as a principle, perpetually applicable, and accepted by three generations as the sum of political wisdom for our national manhood. Our long-continued misapplication of Washington's advice has created a temper well expressed by the words, "Who cares for abroad?" As if the experience of other nations could profit us nothing; as if we were quite superior to the natural laws which have controlled the world's history; as if the wisdom, of the past contained nothing for us! This temper is indifferent to Old World opinion and responsible for many bad manners. It has created a feeling of irresponsibility for the world's affairs which made it possible for us to stand by and pusillauimously watch the unspeakable Turk while, in the broad daylight of nine teenth-century civilization, he butchered more Christians than suffered martyrdom during all of the "Ten Great Persecutions" under the Roman emperors. This national temper has so neglected American citizens abroad as to invite for them imposition. Americans have had to rely on the British flag for protection; and instances are not lacking in which that flag has been worth more to them than their own. At the time of the Armenian massacres American citizens suffered the loss of their property and were placed in peril of their lives by the Turkish soldiery, and yet in response to repeated demands for indemnity, made by our government, ...
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Very Good. 1900 Navy cloth 8vo, 310pp. In Very good condition. With red and yellow stamped cover illustration. Nudging to parts of the boards. Sticker remainder to spine, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; else clean and unmarked.
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