Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from From Waterloo to the Marne: History of the World During the Past Century, 1815-1914
TO - day, more than in any other period, it is necessary that contemporary History should be widely studied. In this age of ours, in which the nations themselves indicate to their Governments the aths which the latter must follow, how many disastrous mistakes may yet be avoided by following the direction dictated by public opinion! In order to give accurate advice concerning the future of one's own country, one must first make an attentive study of the manner in which its existing social system has been formed, and since, to-day, the life of individual nations no longer is developed, as formerly, in isolation and the greater part of the world is moved by the same currents of thought, passions, and interests, each national outlook must survey the events which occur simultaneously over the whole surface of the globe.
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