3/0 CONCLUSION 



pire. Each step in the consolidation of this 

 mighty structure has received in the United 

 States the same degree of cordial approval that 

 Great Britain displayed when the United 

 States set forth on its imperialistic career 

 among the ruins of the Spanish dominion. 



The century of peace ends with the English- 

 speaking world comprehended in two great 

 political aggregates, differing much from each 

 other in obvious characteristics, but permeated 

 in the subtler arteries of their social life with 

 forces that make for like feeling and like 

 thinking. The same basic conceptions of de 

 mocracy, liberty, and law prevail in both these 

 organisms and determine the direction of con 

 scious progress; the growing parallelism of 

 economic conditions, the long-established finan 

 cial and commercial relationships, the intimate 

 solidarity of intellectual life, assure that the 

 lines of unconscious progress will be the same 

 in both. Everything seems to promise the 

 absence of all but friendly rivalry in reciprocal 

 benefits and in contribution to the welfare of 

 the race. 



Our historical review has shown that in the 

 relation of the English-speaking peoples there 

 has been much misconception, distrust, suspi- 



