210 THE ANGLO-SAXOK AKD THE WORLD'S EUTUKE. 



civil liberty. Without controverny, these are the forces 

 which, in the past, have contributed most to the eleva- 

 tion of the human race, and they must continue to be, in 

 the future, the most efficient ministers to its progress. 

 It follows, then, that the Anglo-Saxon, as the great 

 representative of these two ideas, the depositary of these 

 two greatest blessings, sustains peculiar relations to the 

 world's future, is divinely commissioned to be, in a pecul- 

 iar sense, his brother's keeper. Add to this the fact of his 

 rapidly increasing strength in modern times, and we 

 have well-nigh a demonstration of his destinj". In 1700 

 this race numbered less than 6,000,000 souls. In 1800, 

 Anglo-Saxons (I use the term somewhat broadly to in- 

 clude all English -speaking peoples) had increased to 

 about 20,500,000, and now. in 1890, thej^ number more than 

 120,000,000, having multiplied almost six-fold in ninety 

 years. At the end of the reign of Charles II. the En- 

 glish colonists in iVmerica numbered 200, 000. During 

 these two hundred years, our population has increased 

 two hundred and fifty-fold. And the expansion of this 

 race has been no less remarkable than its multiplication. 

 In one century the United States has increased its ter- 

 ritory ten-fold, w^iile the enormous acquisition of foreign 

 territory by Great Britain— and chiefly within the last 

 hundred years— is wholh^ unparalleled in history. This 

 mighty Anglo-Saxon race, though comprising only one- 

 thirteenth part of mankind, now rules more than one- 

 third of the earth's surface, and more than one-fourth of 

 its people. And if this race, wdiile growing from 6,000,- 

 000 to 120,000,000, thus gained possession of a third por- 

 tion of the earth, is it to be supposed that when it 

 numbers 1,000,000,000, it will lose the disposition, or lack 

 the power to extend its sway ? 



This race is multiplying not only more rapidly than 

 any other European race, but more rapidly than all the 

 races of continental Europe taken together. There is no 

 exact knowledge of the population of Europe early in 

 the century. We know, however, that the increase on 

 the continent during the ten years from 1870 to 1880 was 



