Excerpt from The Study of Nations, an Experiment in Social Education: With Chapters on China and Japan
The American Nation has gradually recognized that the trend of world-events has swept it from a place of minor importance in international relations to a place of major influence in world affairs. On the one hand, its internal affairs have become so entangled with its neighbor-nations that it cannot longer solve its own problems without a due understanding of the national traditions, aspirations, and needs of the peoples surrounding it. On the other hand, it has become so powerful in the world's respect that it has with sudden compulsion been forced to assume, along with the other great societies of the earth, its full share of responsibility for world-civilization.
Never again can the American people return to the narrowly national political philosophy of the pre-Spanish War period. It cannot even fall back to the reticent policy of partial participation which it favored prior to the Great War. The fact of the interdependence of all nations, great and small, has been thrust upon the American people and its leaders with startling abruptness by the events of the past two years. Our country is somewhat amazed by its own prestige and influence.
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