Sometimes you imagine you see something like civil war; and money is flowing out of the Kingdom into Canada in the greatest volume ever known and I am told that a number of old families are investing their fortunes in African lands.
These and such things are, of course, mere chips which show the direction the slow stream runs.

The great economic tide of the century flows our way.

_We_ shall have the big world questions to decide presently.

Then we shall need world policies; and it will be these old-time world leaders that we shall then have to work with, more closely than now.
The English make a sharp distinction between the American people and the American Government--a distinction that they are conscious of and that they themselves talk about.

They do not think of our _people_ as foreigners.