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Excerpt from Foreign Relations
Some risk, however, will always remain of such a re sult until the nation, as a nation, seriously re?ects on the true meaning of a foreign policy, and steadily determines the shape which such a policy shall assume. For this purpose, however, it requires information which it cannot easily derive from ordinary libraries. Such information it would be both foolish and presumptuous to attempt to supply in a little book of one hundred and sixty pages. But, even in such a book, it may be possible to indicate with some prec1s10n the change which has occurred in the foreign policy of this country through the change in its own position both in Europe and the world; and it may be easy to supplement this account with some description of the machinery by which the foreign policy of the country is regulated. Such an account may, per haps, make a few things intelligible, which at present it is hard to understand, and induce some people to take greater interest in affairs which at present they are too apt to leave to the management or mismanagement of professional statesmen.
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