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It often strikes a man to inquire what is the chief good in life; to one the thought comes that it is a happy marriage, to another great wealth, and as each seizes on his idea, for that he more or less works for the rest of his existence. To myself thinking over the same question the wish came to render myself useful to my country. I then asked myself how could I and after reviewing the various methods I have felt that at the present day we are actually limiting our children and perhaps bringing into the world half the human beings we might owing to the lack of country for them to inhabit that if we had retained America there would at this moment be millions more of English living. I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.
It often strikes a man to inquire what is the chief good in life; to one the thought comes that it is a happy marriage, to another great wealth, and as each seizes on his idea, for that he more or less works for the rest of his existence. To myself thinking over the same question the wish came to render myself useful to my country. I then asked myself how could I and after reviewing the various methods I have felt that at the present day we are actually limiting our children and perhaps bringing into the world half the human beings we might owing to the lack of country for them to inhabit that if we had retained America there would at this moment be millions more of English living. I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.
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- Reader’s Guide
- New Imperialism
- Cecil Rhodes: Confession of Faith
- Constitution of the Hawaiian Islands
- Bernhard von Bülow on Germany’s “Place in the Sun”
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: “Current Fallacies upon Naval Subjects”
- William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
- William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
- John Hay: First “Open Door” Note to Andrew D. White
- William McKinley: Statement to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Emilio Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States
- Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism
- Mary Kingsley: West African Studies
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden”
- Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science
- Mark Twain: “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”
- Boxer Protocol
- D’Arcy Concession
- Ernest Crosby: “The Real White Man's Burden”
- Panama Canal Treaty
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
- Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden
- Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa
- George Orwell: Burmese Days
- Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
- Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal
- John Foster Dulles: Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis
- Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly