Expansion Under New World-conditionsBaker and Taylor Company, 1900 - 302 páginas |
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A. T. Mahan Africa Alaska American Anglo-Saxon arable public Asia Asiatic Australasia Australia become Britain British Captain Mahan Caribbean Sea cent CHAPTER China Chinese Christian civiliza civilization coal commerce competition continent cost Cuba duty earth East empire England Europe European expansion fact Filipinos force foreign markets Germany greater home market human hundred important increase India Indies industrial interests invention iron islands Isthmian Canal Japan JOSIAH STRONG labor lands liberty machinery Manila manufactures means ment merce miles million nations natural navy necessity Nicaragua Canal North organized ourselves Pacific coast Philippines political population ports possible preceding production races railway Russia San Francisco says self-government Siberia Slav South America Spain Spanish-American war square miles standard of living Suez Suez Canal supply temperate zones thousands tion to-day tons trade tropics twentieth century United vast wealth West western world conditions York
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Página 100 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Página 299 - He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race.
Página 65 - She will probably become what we are now, the head servant in the great household of the world, the employer of all employed; because her service will be the most and ablest.
Página 100 - The day will come when in the state of New York a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature.
Página 271 - A nation ought to be but as one huge Christian personage, one mighty growth or stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body, for look, what the ground and causes are of single happiness to one man, the same ye shall find them to a whole state.
Página 25 - If we were to take a survey of mankind in ancient or modern times as regards the physical, mechanical, and intellectual force of nations, we find nothing to compare with the United States in this present year of 1895.
Página 265 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Página 139 - An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.
Página 315 - Sent postpaid on receipt of the price by the Baker & Taylor Co., publishers, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth street, New York.