When a business rival gives you the glad hand and asks fondly after the children, beware lest the ensuing emotions cost you money.
"No: our distrust for England has not its life and being in pernicious textbooks.

To really believe that would be an insult to our intelligence--even grudges cannot live without real food.

Should England become helpless tomorrow, our animosity and distrust would die to-morrow, because we would know that she had it no longer in her power to injure us.

Therein lies the feeling--the textbooks merely echo it....
"In my opinion, a navy somewhat larger than England's would practically eliminate from America that 'Ancient Grudge' you deplore.

It is England's navy--her boasted and actual control of the seas--which threatens and irritates every nation on the face of the globe that has maritime aspirations.