4.  An Analysis of Certain Countries. - Part 2

Thus the influences pouring into the United States today are very many; they relate the country practically to every country in Europe; this leads at times to chaotic conditions and to much confusion of thought.  Yet it produces a richness in the national life which is a good augury for the future.  A study of what I have said and a consideration of the various tabulations will prove how utterly impossible it is for the American people to dissociate themselves from Europe and the rest of the world.