| Show I PROGRESS OF THE RACES iitits l Roche In the Paris Figaro gives some comparisons and dates as to the population and the changes of population in Europe in the past one hundred years In 1801 the population was 175000000 It Is now 302000000 The population of France at the time was 26000000 and he says France was superior su-perior in numbers and cohesion and vigor to every other nation except Russia Rus-sia Russia Itself had but 36000000 mostly uncivilized The United Kingdom King-dom had only 16000000 Tho old German Ger-man Empire which was then but a political expression having been torn into fragments by Napoleon had but 25000000 Inhabitants AustroHungary had about the same number There was no Italy The kingdom of Sardinia had less than 3000000 the Slates oC the Church tho same the Kingdom of Naples Na-ples about 5000000 tho Grand Duchy of Tuscany about 1000000 France in herself represented about onefifth of Europe and In almost every respect held tho first place Very little was known at that time of the world outside out-side The Chinese reported 333000000 people Japan was a closed book India In-dia was nearly so as was all the rest of Asia In Frances present limits the population has increased in one hundred hun-dred years only from 26000000 to 38000 000 people and France Is now tho tenth power of Europe in regard to numbers The United Kingdom has 1 41000000 people and the new German Empire 56000000 Austria has 45000000 Russia I Rus-sia fin 135000000 Even Italy has 32 000000 and ID Increasing while FrancIs I Franc-is stationary One hundred years ago tho great working races of tho world excluding tho yellow man the blackman black-man and the brown man numbered 200000000 people Now they number atiout 600000000 M ochc believes the subjugation the forces of nature na-ture to which the increase of power is due owes nothing to armies to Em porora to Legislatures to Governments Ho thinks the true potentates have been tho men of Inventive genius of devotion to science whoaq discoveries and clergies have drawn the remote parts of the earth together He declares de-clares that they have made greater changes than all the princes all the conquests all the foundations and all the falls of kingdoms and empires I In this he thinks that France may take the first place and he believes that if France would again take the first place among nations she must abandon military glory as an Ideal and that had not the French been led astray by these false gpds Uicy might have been today the most Influential and the happiest of nations LooJUng out on the world It seems < < to us that France und r Napoleon the Great represented tho dissolving v6w ot all the glories of all thp wars which had raged Jn the world from tho first t True there have been wars since and will be more but the achievements j I I of Napoleon were tho acme of all that was grand and enchanting in war and when Napoleons star went down the star of the Great Republic on this side was advancing toward the zenith It symbolized the realm of peace as much as Napoleons star did the realm of war and It was the example of this coun try more than all other causes com bined that during the past century changed the face oC the world and which amounted to what might be 1 called Universe about face Steam came to help the wprld so did electricity elec-tricity Time steam engine and the elec tric telegraph received full development develop-ment In the last half of the last century cen-tury and they drew the continents together to-gether and made ferries of the sea I Again In the last century the Anglo Saxon 03 generally understood by whJfii ve mean tho levelheaded race that has come of the mingling of the i English German Scotch the Irish and i the Norseman in our land with the I old Mothur 1 Country at home has become be-come the dominant race a lawgiving j and lawrcHpcuUnR race a CQol and i levelheaded race and when wo note the situation In the United Stales In Canada In Great Britain in Australia I and In South Africa If I there Is any j thing in signs It means that Int lie J next hllfcentur tlC edict will be ttml I filled there will bo no mOle wars I i among civilized peoples because the I j great compelling Ruaslan Iace In h 7 on f I and the great compelling AngloSaxon race everywhere else will make war I Impossible and the arts of peace the triumphs of peace the glories and the achievements of peace will absorb the I energies and the umbilicus of men |
