Excerpt from The International Monthly, Vol. 3: A Magazine of Contemporary Thought; January-June, 1901
In the history of England, for the fourth time, the close of the century coincides with the termination of an old era and the beginning of a new age. The end of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth, centuries terminated and inaugurated eras big with events and ideas; so does the close of the nineteenth. But while the previous three centuries ended with the decay of absolutism (1603), the cessation of civil wars (1702), and of corrupt oligarchy (1832), respectively; and inaugurated, in succession, representative institutions, civil freedom, and colonial expansion; the close of the nineteenth century reveals not the ascent of British policy, but a diminution of its power.
This is the burden of the following lines. In order to bear out my statement, probably a startling one to most readers, I must premise a rapid historic view of English policy since the time that England commenced to play a conspicuous part in European politics.
England"s power is in reality not very much older than the time of the union of England and Scotland (1707), or since the year when Great Britain, from having been only a physical island, became a political island.
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