The International Monthly, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from The International Monthly, Vol. 3: A Magazine of Contemporary Thought, January-June, 1901Characteristically enough, England's grandeur, the work rather of the genius of circumstances than of that of her great personali ties, was since 1870 to be most seriously questioned by two per sons, masters rather than the make of circumstances: Bismarck and Lesseps.Bismarck founded both the German Empire and the German aspiration for a world empire. At one stroke, all the possibili ties of eighteenth century diplomacy vanished and the secular fight between England and France was inevitably transformed to a, no doubt, long rivalry between England and Germany. For now the Germans electrified by their great victories, discharged their fresh energy into commercial and industrial channels, and guided by the statesmanship of the Iron Chancellor, seriously commenced the building up of colonies. The new rival was at first smilingly ignored by the English. No danger could, they thought, come from such purely academic attempts of an academic nation. The temper of the English, it must be confessed, is one very easily given to pooh-poohing people. Alone, of all the white nations, the English have undergone for nearly four generations neither a national humiliation such as Jena, Sedan, or Sadowa, nor a civil war. They cannot, therefore, but think, that in them his tory has retained a force superior to that ofother nations. In keep ing with that natural attitude of theirs they did not take the rising rivalry ofthe Germans ou serieux. Here is the first ofthe historic errors. A second was to follow or rather, arose at the same time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.