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Title: The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People

Author: John Dos Passos

Release Date: March 11, 2014 [EBook #45111]

Language: English

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THE ANGLO-SAXON CENTURY

AND

THE UNIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES

BY

JOHN R. DOS PASSOS

OF THE NEW YORK BAR

Author of "Stock Brokers and Stock Exchanges," "The Interstate
Commerce Act," "Commercial Trusts," etc.

SECOND EDITION

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

Knickerbocker Press

1903

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COPYRIGHT, 1903

BY

JOHN R. DOS PASSOS

Published, June, 1903

Reprinted, August, 1903

Knickerbocker Press, New York

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ANALYSIS

CHAPTER PAGE Introduction ……………………………………….vii I. Two events which mark the close of the nineteenth century.1 I. By the Spanish War, the relations of the United States to Europe and the East were suddenly transformed…………..3 II. The effect of the war in Africa upon the relations and power of England…………………………………….5 III. The present diplomatic and political map of the world.8 IV. Russia, China, France—their relations to each other and to the world……………………………………….10 V. The Spanish and Portuguese people………………….31

II. The origin and form of the suggested alliance between
                            England and the United States…48
  I. How the suggestion arose………………………….48
  II. The indefiniteness of the form of the proposed
  Alliance…………………………………………..55
  Definition of co-operation, alliance, union, or compact…61

III. The historical facts traced which have been gradually leading to interfusion between the English-speaking people…………………………………………….69

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  I. The different epochs which led to the development and
    expansion of the English-speaking race………………71
    a. The introduction of Christianity into England……71
    b. The consolidation of the different kingdoms of
      England into one………………………………..74
    c. The influence of the Roman Law upon England's
      Progress……………………………………….77
    d. The Great Charters—the Petition of Right—the
      Habeas Corpus Act, passed under Charles—the Bill of
      Rights in 1688—and the Act of Settlement………….79
    e. The union with Scotland……………………….80
    f. Discovery of America………………………….81
    g. The independence of the colonies……………….83
  II. Résumé of the foregoing………………………….96

IV. The inherent natural reasons or sympathetic causes
  which sustain a union, and which support the historical
  growth and tendency to the same end examined…………..99
  I. Union natural as to time and people……………..100
  II. Of the same national family…………………….101
  III. The same language……………………………..108
  IV. The same literature……………………………116
  V. The same political institutions…………………124
  VI. The same laws, legal customs, and general modes of
    judicial procedure……………………………….133
  VII. The same tendency and methods of religious thought
    and worship……………………………………..137
  VIII. Intermarriages……………………………….138

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  IX. Other similarities between the two nations,
    exhibiting the natural features of the alliance, such
    as the drama, sports, pastimes, habits of living…….139
  X. Resume……………………………………….140

V. The selfish causes which provoke and support an alliance
  Examined………………………………………….142
  I. The common interests of both countries demand
       co-operation—identity of international action……142
      Commercial relations……………………………144
      Financial relations…………………………….144
  II. Self-preservation—protection—necessity…………145
  III. Duty…………………………………………146

VI. The means by which a closer union may be created and
  maintained………………………………………..152
  Preliminary……………………………………….153
  The three methods examined by which a union may be
    established……………………………………..154
      By absorption of all into one nation……………..154
      By establishing a federation…………………….154
      By a treaty—regulating their conduct and intercourse
        with each other………………………………155
      The reasons existing against the first two, and in
        favor of the last method………………………156
VII. The subjects to be covered by a Treaty…………….159
  I. The Dominion of Canada to become a part of the United
      States of America………………………………159
  II. Common Citizenship……………………………..179
  III. The establishment of freedom of commercial
    intercourse and relations between the countries
    involved, to the same extent as that which exists
    between the different States constituting the United
    States of America………………………………..202

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  IV. Great Britain and the United States (I) to coin gold,
    silver, nickel and copper money, not displaying the
    same devices or mottoes, but possessing an equal money
    value, and interchangeable everywhere within the limits
    covered by the Treaty, and (2) to establish a uniform
    standard of weights and measures…………………..205
      I. The same gold, silver, nickel and copper money…205
      II. To establish a uniform standard of weights and