The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

when this world is to be brought to an end, the seat
of the life of the world will be in the feet, that is, in
the nations of Western Europe. And this is now
precisely the case. It is more the case to-day than it
was one year ago, and it is getting more and more
so all the time. To-day it is the nations of Western
Europe which rule the greater part of the earth, and
all that portion formerly ruled over by Babylon,
Medo- Persia, and Greece, to say nothing of the
territory of Rome, is ruled over by them. The
nations of Western Europe are the rulers of all the
Oriental countries, and especially of China. They
are in deed and in fact the “kings of the East.” But
more than this, it could never be truthfully said that
they were the kings of the East until within the last
year or two. For years England held that China
should be kept intact, and that the dissolution of the
Celestial empire should be prevented. But just
recently England has agreed with Russia that the
“spheres of influence” system shall be admitted as
the law governing the great powers in the case of
China, and now all the great nations are grabbing
every portion of that vast empire that is worth
having. Into the details of this it is not necessary to
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