this:
- Arabia and Morocco.
- Turkish territory as a whole.
- The more unruly Balkan States. Montenegro.
- Russia.
- Spain. Italy. Austria.
- France.
- Germany.
- Scandinavia. Holland. Belgium.
- England.
- The United States.
- Canada.
Do Mr. Roosevelt, Admiral Mahan, Baron von Stengel, Marshal von Moltke, Mr. Homer Lea, and the English clergymen seriously argue that this list should be reversed, and that Arabia and Turkey should be taken as the types of progressive nations, and England and Germany and Scandinavia as the decadent?
It may be urged that my list is not absolutely accurate, in that England, having fought more little wars (though the conflict with the Boers, waged with a small, pastoral people, shows