America Before Europe

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Excerpt from America Before Europe: Principles and InterestsWe have vast interests in America, the American crisis has aspects which have not been sufficiently marked, it affects us everywhere, through the United States and through Mexico, through present and future complications. The question is not only to sound there those destinies of democracy which have fixed the atten tion of our political philosophers since De Tocqueville other problems no less grave are implicated in the discus sion. I have endeavored to examine them on the way.Whether the United States prevail decidedly, or suffer new reverses, whether Europe repudiate irrevocably the tendencies which had so nearly won her over, or again experience in a few months the temptation to intervene, it will be by no means useless for us to take account of the faults of the past, which may be, let us beware! The dangers of the future.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.