258 The Monroe Doctrine 



perpetrated on their wretched subjects wrongs that 

 would blast the memory of Attila. 



We do not wish to be misunderstood. We have 

 no feeling against England. On the contrary, we 

 regard her as being well in advance of the great 

 powers of Continental Europe, and we have more 

 sympathy with her. In general, her success tells 

 for the success of civilization, and we wish her well. 

 But where her interests enlist her against the prog- 

 ress of civilization and in favor of the oppression 

 of other nationalities who are struggling upward, 

 our sympathies are immediately forfeited. 



It is a matter of serious concern to every college 

 man, and, indeed, to every man who believes in the 

 good effects of a liberal education, to see the false 

 views which seem to obtain among so many of the 

 leaders of educated thought, not only upon the Mon- 

 roe Doctrine, but upon every question which involves 

 the existence of a feeling of robust Americanism. 

 Every educated man who puts himself out of touch 

 with the current of American thought, and who on 

 conspicuous occasions assumes an attitude hostile to 

 the interest of America, is doing what he can to 

 weaken the influence of educated men in American 

 life. The crude, ill-conditioned jealousy of educa- 

 tion, which is so often and so lamentably shown by 

 large bodies of our people, is immensely stimulated 

 by the action of those prominent educated men in 

 whom education seems to have destroyed the strong, 

 virile virtues and especially the spirit of American- 

 ism. 



