342 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. 



and use the enormous powers for good or evil which, the 

 rapid advance of scientific discovery had given us; that 

 our boasted civilization was in many respects a mere sur- 

 face veneer; and that our methods of government were 

 not in accordance with either Christianity or civiliza- 

 tion. This view is enforced by the consideration that 

 all the European wars of the century have been due to 

 dynastic squabbles or to obtain national aggrandizement, 

 and were never waged in order to free the slave or pro- 

 tect the oppressed without any ulterior selfish ends. 



It has been often said that Companies have no souls, 

 and the same is still more true of the Governments of our 

 day. 



