ABSTRACT
What does the greatness of one's country do for the individual? It does something important and not altogether easy to analyse. As a member of a nation which is beginning to lose the great position it has occupied during the last two centuries, I am acutely conscious of the change in individual mentality brought about by the change in political status. And in America, which I have known since 1896, the converse change is taking place, though it is still far from being completely accomplished. Let us try to see what these two opposite changes consist of.
