Expansion Under New World-conditionsBaker and Taylor Company, 1900 - 302 páginas |
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A. T. Mahan Admiral Dewey Africa Alaska American Anglo-Saxon Asia Asiatic Atlantic Australasia Australia become Britain British Cape Horn Caribbean Sea cent CHAPTER China Chinese Christian civiliza civilization coal commerce competition conscience continent cost Cuba distance duty earth East economic empire England Europe European expansion fact Filipinos force foreign markets Germany greater home market human hundred important increase India industrial interests invention iron islands Isthmian Canal Japan JOSIAH STRONG labor land liberty Liverpool machinery Manila manufactures means ment merce miles million nations natural navy necessity Nicaragua Canal North organized Pacific coast Philippines population ports possible production races railway Russia San Francisco says self-government Siberia Slav South America 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's future York
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Página 267 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
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 299 - We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race...
Página 265 - As we have, therefore, opportunity, let us do good unto all men," making obligation commensurate with opportunity. As the individual life, organized in everwider relations, is the basis of the community life, of the national life, and of the world life, and as individual opinion is the basis of public opinion, which by reason of...
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 235 - It matters not to me, My brother's weal is his behoof," For in this wondrous human web, If your life's warp, his life is woof. Woven together are the threads, And you and he are in one loom, For good or ill, for glad or sad, Your lives must share one common doom.
Página 197 - Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of fuel to distances of 3,500 or 4,000 miles — or between 7,000 and 8,000, going and coming — an impediment to sustained maritime operations well-nigh prohibitive.