Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Michael Zeug, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes: Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. Some typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text. Words surrounded by _underscores_ are in italics in the original. Ellipses match the original. A row of asterisks represents a thought break. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | The Twentieth | | Century American | | | | Being | | | | A Comparative Study of the Peoples of | | the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | BY | | | | H. PERRY ROBINSON | | | | AUTHOR OF "MEN BORN EQUAL," "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY | | OF A BLACK BEAR," ETC. | | | | | | [Illustration] | | | | | | The Chautauqua Press | | CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK | | MCMXI | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ COPYRIGHT, 1908 BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS The Knickerbocker Press, New York TO THOSE READERS, WHETHER ENGLISH OR AMERICAN, WHO AGREE WITH WHATEVER IS SAID IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES IN LAUDATION OF