A better justification for these statements must be reserved for the succeeding chapter; but in the meantime I will take the risk asserting that Mr.Roosevelt's nationalism really implies a democracy of individual and social improvement.

His nationalizing programme has in effect questioned the value of certain fundamental American ideas, and if Mr.Roosevelt has not himself outgrown these ideas, his misreading of his own work need not be a matter of surprise.

It is what one would expect from the prophet of the Strenuous Life.
Mr.Roosevelt has done little to encourage candid and consistent thinking.

He has preached the doctrine that the paramount and almost the exclusive duty of the American citizen consists in being a sixty-horse-power moral motor-car.

In his own career his intelligence has been the handmaid of his will; and the balance between those faculties, so finely exemplified in Abraham Lincoln, has been destroyed by sheer exuberance of moral energy.