ord Now Wrrnty the recollection of many who have hardly come to years of diseretion there has grown up aa entirely new and very vigorous excuse for national jealousy. It is hard to say how far one would have to go back into history to find anything approaching it. Ona small scale, i.c., as between pairs of countries, the same rivalry has not been infrequent, but no period ever exhibited so widespread a feeling of distrust between numbers of artificially balanced Powers as is in evidence to-day. A century ago there were but two "World Empires"—Great Britain and France—Spain was already on the wane, The antagonism into which they were thrown, the results of their struggle, and the legacy of strong
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