From the very nature of the case England is forced outward, from her little island home, into other lands; and all on whom she sets her colonial seal become English in the end. With us the process is exactly reversed, although the same result ensues: the people come, from all parts of the earth, to dwell beneath Manasseh's flag, and her great seal marks their children for her own. Our common ancestral origin was by adoption; and just as Jacob made the Egyptian lads his own firstborn, so we, their children, are adopting, and adapting, all men to our ends. The underlying principle of all this is Hebrew, and finds its counterpart only in Saxon lands. "The stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God" (Lev. xix. 34); and "As ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord" (Num. xv. 15).

The outcome of the British process is EMPIRE, and as the tide fills up, and floods back to the central fount, "Confederation," now already begun, will unite her "company of nations" into one grand group; while, by the American plan, starting from a fundamental company of independent sovereignties, Centralization grows with age, and its outcome is REPUBLIC. With Ephraim it is Nationality, with Manasseh it is Popularity, and with the twain, at length, it is to be Fraternity. For the philosophy of this dual process is nothing short of an eventual union of two ever-independent ensigns wherein is wedded MIGHT.

When the " Color Guard" of such a RACE stands beside the standards of its eastern and its western halves, and behind them range the serried flags of countless states and nations, the armies of the tribes they repre

sent will be invincible; and although, for weapons, they shall wield but olive boughs and palms, there shall be found none to fight against them.

We have purposely selected the foregoing extracts from out of an unwieldy mass of similar testimony, because they have the special merit of consecutive descent, are at once the absolutely unprejudiced, and at the same time the amazed, prophecy and fulfilment of Anglo-Saxon growth during the present century. They likewise are of special value in that they chiefly concern the main Anglo-Saxon trunk, from whose sap and vigor all the growing boughs derive their life.

Each of these separate boughs has its own independent history, fulfilment, growth, and resource inexhaustible, and each has been the theme of glowing pens.

Concerning the brilliant outlook of our own great branch of Anglo-Saxon greatness, one cannot do better than peruse the testimony collected by Rev. Josiah Strong in his stirring brochure "Our Country," the whole of which volume we endorse, and refer to, as collateral and "blind evidence"-wrought in wiser potence than it knew, and therefore all the more signif icant-upon the subject-matter, and the truth, set forth in this present volume.

THE RACE, however, is our theme, and this is broader than the folds of any single flag that at present casts its shadows on the Saxon birthright.

As fruitful as the "bough of Joseph," the AngloSaxons have luxuriantly overrun the wall that hedged them in two centuries ago, and now are spreading out into all the "desolate heritages" of the earth. Here they double still more rapidly, and crowd not only the ill-fated natives but all other competitors into the corners, for, Engle-men by name, they literally press, as with the

horns of unicorns, towards the angles of every continent that stops the sea. Their ports are closed not day nor night, and in their busy marts more than half of the whole industry of the world is already centred.

We are now nearing the close of our most prosperous decade; its statistics are as yet but crude, for they almost outgrow our powers of arrangement. But if any one is still at all doubtful of the future of Anglo-Saxondom, or disposed to question the statistical FACT that already, to-day, this race stands head and shoulders above all other peoples of the earth, and is moving onwards, in every line of progress, at a constantly more accelerated rate than they, we refer him to another volume which should be in the hands of every Englishspeaking statesman, "The Balance Sheet of the World," by the celebrated statistician, M. G. Mulhall, F.S.S., London. The edition for the decade just ending will not be out until late in 1890, but the figures collated in the edition of 1880 are sufficiently startling earnests of what may henceforth be expected.

Mr. Mulhall's tabulated statement of the port-entries of all nations for the ten years under consideration shows that, while the tons burden of the world were 50,000,000, the United Kingdom, British Colonies, and the United States contributed 28,000,000, or more than half.

One half of the whole industry of the world is already in Anglo-Saxon hands. In millions of dollars the increase for the ten years was, for all the earth, 9330; while it was for Great Britain 1685, United States 2625, Australia 285, Canada 140, and South Africa 70; making a total of 4805 millions increase. To this increase can also fairly be added that of South American industry, 120 millions, the bulk of which is represented by British

capital. In 1880 the industry of the earth, expressed in millions of dollars, was 10,120 for Great Britain and 10,020 for the United States. These two nations headed the list, being followed by France and Germany at about 6000 millions each, and by other nations at a far greater disparity. By industry we mean commerce, manufactures, mining, agriculture, carrying-trade, and banking.

But they are fraternal nations—brothers "John” and "Jonathan," and like the "ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh," their united industry of 20,140 millions of dollars is three times as great as that of any other single race on earth. Truly these Hebrew names-JOHN, "the mercy of the Lord," and JONATHAN, "the gift of the Lord "-which their posterity delight in using, are well derived from their paternal JOSEPH-" increase" or "addition"!

During this full decade (1870-1880) more than one half of the increased consumption in cotton, wool, flax, jute, etc., has been within their domain, and in the decade now closing the proportion is still greater. This race produces more than 50 per cent of all the wool, and the United States alone 75 per cent of all the cotton, raised upon the earth.

The increase for the world in manufacturing has been $2,790,000,000, of which $1,620,000,000 has been among those using English pints and pounds and inches. That for all Europe (non-Anglo-Saxon) was but $1,000,000,

000.

Of the 120 million tons increase in coal production (1870-80) they owned 90 millions, or three quarters of the whole; five sevenths of the increase in iron was smelted in their furnaces, and out of it they wrought two thirds of all the steel that marked that decade's increase; in every case far more than half!

In general terms, the study of the commerce of the world for the past twenty-five years (1861 to 1885) shows that, out of $250,000,000,000 (giving the value of the exports and imports in round numbers), Anglo-Saxons have measured and re-measured far more than half.

Two thirds of the carrying-trade about the globe is done in Anglo-Saxon "bottoms," and as a travelling race it purchases three fifths of all the railroad tickets sold the world around.

It is due also to their business thrift and enterprise that we own two fifths of all the electric wires that nerve the business world, and over all of it send twice as many messages, per inhabitant, as the continental nations of Europe.

In this same decade two thirds of all the silver and gold drawn out of the earth was delved by Anglo-Saxon hands, and in their mints the bulk of it received the impress of their coinage. More than half of the coined specie in existence is used in Anglo-Saxon trade, and it has already accumulated more than one third of the earth's surplus wealth.

It is but a question of time ere the Anglo-Saxons will control the whole of it; for they stand at the gates of revenue, and belt the earth with colonies which stride towards wealth and empire at unprecedented lengths, and share them only with each other.

They are better fed and better clothed than any race on earth, and per inhabitant are almost doubly richer than the whole world's average! They are also less in debt. But three nations of the earth had, in 1880, effected any appreciable reduction of their national debt; these were Great Britain, the United States, and Denmark. The world's public debt was then about 30 billions of dollars, of which Continental Europe was