But already it is apparent to what extent these two men served the great cause of English-speaking civilization.

Neither would quibble or uphold an argument which he thought unjust, even though his nation might gain in a material sense, and neither would pitch the discussion in any other key than forbearance and mutual accommodation and courtliness.

For both men had the same end in view.

They were both thinking, not of the present, but of the coming centuries.

The cooeperation of the two nations in meeting the dangers of autocracy and Prussian barbarism, in laying the foundations of a future in which peace, democracy, and international justice should be the directing ideas of human society--such was the ultimate purpose at which these two statesmen aimed.