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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and her competitors have acted wisely, and that in both cases the meansadopted were such as conditions demanded. The third cause of the worlds commercial progress during the past cen-tury has been colonial expansion. Germany, France, and other countries,influenced by the great success of the United Kingdom, have establishedcolonies in different parts of the world, and assumed control over uncivilizedpeoples, until there are now 125 colonies, protectorates, and dependencies.These 125 regions comprise two fifths of the land surface of the globe, andcontain one third of its population. These colonies and protectorates importannually over $1,500,000,000 worth of commodities, and of this large summore than forty per cent is bought from mother countries. The last nationto adopt the policy of colonial expansion is the United States, her principalcolony, the Philippine Islands, having been made a part of her possessionsbecause of our desire to secure a larger share of the trade of the Orient.
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THE CENTURYS COMMERCIAL PROGRESS 513 IX. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSPECT. The world is entering upon the twentieth century with the nations of theearth bound to each cither by much closer relations than existed a hundredyears ago, and chief among the forces that draw the countries of the worldtogether is commerce, it is commerce, more than anything else, that hasbrought about the existing organization of industry in which each nation isdependent upon every other. The nations of the world are mutually dependent, but their interests arenot identical. In the future, as they have done in the past, nations will com-pete with each other, each striving to secure for itself a maximum of economicadvantage ; and this competition will continue to take the form of commercialrivalry. The great international struggles of the present day are being car-ried on to secure trade advantages ; and at no time in the past have thosecontests been more earnest than they now are. The conflicts of the twen-tieth

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