Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

History has been the history of warfare.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.