ANALYSIS
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction ……………………………………….vii I. Two events which mark the close of the nineteenth century.1 I. By the Spanish War, the relations of the United States to Europe and the East were suddenly transformed…………..3 II. The effect of the war in Africa upon the relations and power of England…………………………………….5 III. The present diplomatic and political map of the world.8 IV. Russia, China, France—their relations to each other and to the world……………………………………….10 V. The Spanish and Portuguese people………………….31
II. The origin and form of the suggested alliance between
England and the United States…48
I. How the suggestion arose………………………….48
II. The indefiniteness of the form of the proposed
Alliance…………………………………………..55
Definition of co-operation, alliance, union, or compact…61
III. The historical facts traced which have been gradually leading to interfusion between the English-speaking people…………………………………………….69
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I. The different epochs which led to the development and
expansion of the English-speaking race………………71
a. The introduction of Christianity into England……71
b. The consolidation of the different kingdoms of
England into one………………………………..74
c. The influence of the Roman Law upon England's
Progress……………………………………….77
d. The Great Charters—the Petition of Right—the
Habeas Corpus Act, passed under Charles—the Bill of
Rights in 1688—and the Act of Settlement………….79
e. The union with Scotland……………………….80
f. Discovery of America………………………….81
g. The independence of the colonies……………….83
II. Résumé of the foregoing………………………….96
IV. The inherent natural reasons or sympathetic causes which sustain a union, and which support the historical growth and tendency to the same end examined…………..99 I. Union natural as to time and people……………..100 II. Of the same national family…………………….101 III. The same language……………………………..108 IV. The same literature……………………………116 V. The same political institutions…………………124 VI. The same laws, legal customs, and general modes of judicial procedure……………………………….133 VII. The same tendency and methods of religious thought and worship……………………………………..137 VIII. Intermarriages……………………………….138
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IX. Other similarities between the two nations,
exhibiting the natural features of the alliance, such
as the drama, sports, pastimes, habits of living…….139
X. Resume……………………………………….140
V. The selfish causes which provoke and support an alliance
Examined………………………………………….142
I. The common interests of both countries demand
co-operation—identity of international action……142
Commercial relations……………………………144
Financial relations…………………………….144
II. Self-preservation—protection—necessity…………145
III. Duty…………………………………………146