The Prescott daily news., 1910-06-07
and the steppe, empire of today.
 "New" and "Youna" Nations.

NeW ana young Nations.
 Again the new form may represent merely a splitting off from a long -estab-
 lished. highly developed and specialized
 nation. In this case the nation Is usually
 spoken of as d young" and Is correctly spoken of as a new" nation; but the
 term sholll always be used with a clear sense of tie difference between what is
 described in such case, and what Is de- scrihed by tl same term in speaking of
 a civilized nation just developed from a
 barharism. Carthage and Syracuse were
 new cities compared with Tyre and Cor
 inth. but the Greek or Phoenician race was
 in every sense of the word IS old in the
 new city as in the old city. So nowadays
 Victoria or Manitoba Is new community
 compared with England or Scotland but
 the ancestral type of civilization and cul-
 ture Is as old in one case,as in the other
 | of course do not meau' for a moment
 that great changes are not produced by
 the mere fact that the old civilized race
 is suddenly placed In surroundings where
 it has again to go through the work M
 tanning the wilderness work finished
 many centuries before in the original
 home of the race. l merely mean that
 he ancestral history Is the same in each
 c.Se We can rightly use the phrase "a
 new leople' in speaking of Canadians
 or Australians, Americans or Afrikanders
 But we use it in an entirely different
 sonsc from that in which We use it when
 speaking of such communities as those
 founded by the northmen and their de-
 srcUaIuts during that period df astonish-
 Ing growth which saw the descendants of
 tic Worse sea-thteNes conquer and trans
 fem. Normandy, Sicily. and the British
 islands. We use it in an entirely different
 sense from that in which we use 1t when
 speaking of The new states that grew up
 around Warsaw. Kief Novgorod and
 ms Ina of l,a
 steppts and the marshy forests struggled haltngly and stumblingly upward to
 become builders of cities and to form stable governments. The kingdoms of CharlemaGne and Alfred were new"
 compared with the empire on the Bos- phorts, they were also in every way diff f ferent, their lines of ancestral descent had
 nothing in common with those of the polyglot realm which paid tribute to the Caesars of ByZantium, their social prob lemss and aftertime histCAy were totally different. This is not true of those new"
 nations which spring direct from old na- tions Brazil the Argentine, the United States, are all new" nations. compared with the nations of Europe but with
 whatever changes in detail, their civihza- ton is nevertheless of the general Euro- pean type. as shown in Portugal Spain' and England. The differences between these new" American and these "old' European nations are not as great as those which separate the 'new" nations one from another and the old" nations one from another. There are in each case very real differences between the new and | the old naton-d differences both for good and for evil: but in each case there IS the same ancestral history to reckon with, the same type of civilization, with Its at | tendant benefits and shortcomings; and' after the pioneer stages are passed. the | problems to be solved. In spite of superb l cial differences, are in their essence the | same; they are those that confront all | civilized peonlc.. =. those that confropt