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Updated: June 12, 2025
It was not a sudden decision, for a people with such varied spiritual homes as the American, spread over so vast a territory, and looking some eastward across the Atlantic and others westward across the Pacific, but all far removed from European politics and cherishing an inherited aloofness from the Old World and a rooted antipathy to imperialisms of every sort, could not easily see with one eye or achieve unanimity in favour of a vast adventure to break with their past and unite their fortunes with those of the Old World they had left behind.
It is doubtless of urgent importance that we should take our stand against the first-named imperialism, but we must proscribe all the imperialisms. This is no better than the others. The Zofingia denounces the hypocritical ideology of to-day, an ideology which serves to cloak a policy of brute interest.
The first onset of these expansive developments has been marked in the world of mind by an expansion of political ideals Comte's "Western Republic" was the first Utopia that involved the synthesis of numerous States by the development of "Imperialisms" in the place of national policies, and by the search for a basis for wider political unions in racial traditions and linguistic affinities.
In that way she can be deprived of all power for political mischief in Africa without humiliation or economic injury. In that way, too, we can head off and in no other way can we head off the power for evil, the power of developing quarrels inherent in "imperialisms" other than German.
But the time will come when the hideous Empire-wrecking Imperialisms of the present are forgotten, and when we have a new Patriotism which suggests, first and foremost, as that word well may, the duty of fatherhood; and then, perhaps, "smut jaws" will not be the phrase at Eton for discussion of those instincts which determine the future of mankind.
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