Excerpt from The Imperial Impulse: Background Studies of Belguim, England, France, Germany, Russia
Of the following essays, the first three (on Germany, France and England) have appeared in the Century Magazine; the last one("Our First Duty") appeared in the Sunday magazine of the New York Times. The papers on Belgium and Russia are now printed for the first time.
Imperialism, whether economic, political or dynastic, is not the product of an hour. We are beholding the collision of many generations of ambitions and hatred. To understand them we must look behind the soldiery and attempt to discover the work-a-day habits and characteristics of the people.
These papers aim at nothing more than a rapid sketching of the ethnic, economic and political background of these countries, now engaged in the most colossal recrudescence of the imperial instinct of modem times.
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