If anyone searches here for unfriendly criticism or disparagement, or for an ulterior motive in advocating such a federation, he will be disappointed or self-deceived. If he be an American who thinks he sees here a suggestion that the United States should assert the hidden might of her eighty odd millions of resourceful people to compel by diplomacy or tariffs such joint action; if he be a Britisher who thinks he sees here another pushing American plan of wider world control; if he be from one of the five new Britannic nations and guards jealously his own worthy pride of nationhood from the numerical domination of both the British Isles and America, and fears that his own nation's autonomy is covertly attacked--in any such case the reader, whoever he be, is wrong. These pages are to tell Pan-Angles that their efforts will be wasted in any work not based on mutual respect and--may the word be used between men of a race who hesitate to show it--affection; to tell the Pan-Angle who has not {235} before realized it that we are all of the same race, hard fighters and firm friends; and to tell the men of each Pan-Angle nation that their system of individual representation, with primary and final control in the voters of the nation, is the race system. To the Pan-Angle reader, wherever he be, just around the corner or at the other side of the globe (which ought to be the same in this, our world), these pages are addressed in hopes of helping each of us better to understand each other, and to remind us how much we need each other's help. This attempt to express ourselves in terms of ourselves may seem a trite treatise to those familiar with our history. The reason for saying trite things is lest we forget. The federation of the Pan-Angles is, perhaps to many of us, the vision that is to become a reality as a result of this "Era of English-speaking Good Feeling." We have inherited not only lands but ideals from the men who fought for them, regardless of whether it was they or we, their children, who should inherit and enjoy them. To defend these lands, these ideals of personal freedom, and this language we speak, we once had unquestioned supremacy over the seas of the world. By a federation of the English-speaking white people of these seven nations, the control of the world and the self-control of our own citizens will again be in the certain care of the Pan-Angles. "We sailed wherever ship can sail, We founded many a noble state; Pray God our greatness may not fail Through craven fear of being great." [228-1] _Round Table_, London, May 1911, pp. 251-252. [229-1] Richard Jebb, _The Britannic Question_, London, 1913, p. 258. [229-2] _Round Table_, London, May 1911, pp. 252-253. [230-1] _Round Table_, London, May 1911, pp. 253-254. {236} {237} INDEX Aborigines, the, of Pan-Angle lands, 27, 135. Adams, John, _cited_, 107. Administration, the, 118. Administrative control, 94, 111. Africa. _See_ South Africa.