CHAPTER I 



THE GATHERING OF THE WORLD 

 REVOLUTION 



AT some future time the nature of the drama 

 which is at present unfolding itself in history 

 must make a powerful appeal to the human 

 imagination. Under our eyes, with the confused 

 details of the transition spread before us from day 

 to day in the events of the leading countries of the 

 earth, we see the curtain rising upon an entirely 

 new order of the world. 



It is one of the curious features 'of our day that 

 the nature of the change is as yet scarcely appre- 

 hended. The shadow of it rests upon all the events 

 of the time. The meaning of it encircles the world. 

 The instinct of it moves in the minds of distant 

 peoples and of strange races. But there is yet 

 scarcely any conception of its nature. We are 

 undoubtedly living in the West in the opening stages 

 of a revolution the like of which has never been 

 experienced in history. We are witnessing the 

 emergence of causes and the marshalling 



