In course of time Anglo-Saxon may blend with German, as the Elbe Saxons and the Bavarians and Swabians have blended with the Prussians into a loyal united people under the sceptre of the Hohenzollerns.

Then we should be doubly strong, Rome and Carthage rolled into one, an Empire of the West greater than Charlemagne ever knew.

Then we could look Slav and Latin and Asiatic in the face and keep our place as the central dominant force of the civilised world." The speaker paused for a moment and drank a deep draught of wine, as though he were invoking the prosperity of that future world-power.

Then he resumed in a more level tone: "On the other hand, the younger generation of Britons may grow up in hereditary hatred, repulsing all our overtures, forgetting nothing and forgiving nothing, waiting and watching for the time when some weakness assails us, when some crisis entangles us, when we cannot be everywhere at once.

Then our work will be imperilled, perhaps undone.