THE RHODES SCHOLARS 81

must be a new world, if there is to be any world
at all," Where is the wise man who doubts it ?
Not in America, Unless my observations have
gone astray these thoughts are stirring mightily
in the best minds of that nation. Would it be
strange, then, if the" great experiment" became,
at last and essentially, an experiment in the
re-education of mankind, a new attempt, on the
only lines which promise success, to make good
the claim of any nation to " need very little
government" ? To me it would not be strange,
Profoundly mysterious as America's destinies are,
most assuredly they are not written in the sentence
which declares her" the richest nation on earth,"
" America's battle is still to fight,"