If I differ with the greatest respect from your Nicaraguan enthusiasm, it is not because a nation or ten nations were against you; it is because civilisation was against you.

We moderns believe in a great cosmopolitan civilisation, one which shall include all the talents of all the absorbed peoples--" "The Senor will forgive me," said the President.

"May I ask the Senor how, under ordinary circumstances, he catches a wild horse ?" "I never catch a wild horse," replied Barker, with dignity.
"Precisely," said the other; "and there ends your absorption of the talents.

That is what I complain of your cosmopolitanism.

When you say you want all peoples to unite, you really mean that you want all peoples to unite to learn the tricks of your people.