For the other side of the earth I predict a similar development under
the leadership of the United States. I assume that the English dominion
will suffer a downfall similar to that which I have predicted for
Russia, and that under these circumstances Canada would join the United
States, the expanded republic assuming a certain leadership with
reference to the South American republics.
The principle of the absolute sovereignty of the individual nations,
which in the present European tumult has proved itself so inadequate and
baneful, must be given up and replaced by a system conforming to the
world's actual conditions and especially to those political and economic
relations which determine industrial and cultural progress and the
common welfare.
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The Verdict of the American People
By Newell Dwight Hillis.
_Dr. Hillis, who occupies the pulpit of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, made famous by the pastorate of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, delivered the following remarkable sermon on the
European War on Sunday, Dec.
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