It is the distinct raising of the entire body of a people to a higher level, and so brings civilization a stage nearer its goal.

It is the first successful attempt in recorded history to get a healthy, natural equality which should reach down to the foundations of the state and to the great masses of men; and in its results corresponds to what in other lands (excepting, perhaps, in luxury alone) has been attained only by the few,--the successful and the ruling spirits.

To lose it, therefore, to barter it or give it away, would be in the language of Othello 'such deep damnation that nothing else could match,' and would be an irreparable loss to the world and to civilization." Surely no nation can ask for a higher and more generous tribute than that which Mr.Crozier renders to America in the foregoing quotation, and its value is increased by the source from which it comes.

It is written by a man who, as a Canadian, has had the opportunity of knowing American life well without being biased in its favor, and who, as the historian of the intellectual development of our race, has made an exhaustive study of the civilizations both of the ancient and the modern worlds.

Nothing can be soberly added to it on behalf of American national achievement, but neither should it be diminished by any important idea and phrase.