ABSTRACT
The fame of Woodrow Wilson is still unsettled in the American tradition, and not we, but at the earliest our successors, will know his story. There is nothing unusual in that. Mr. Justice Holmes, who fought under Lincoln, used to say that not until twenty years after the war had ended, when at last it was certain that the Union had in fact been preserved, and when we had read the Lincoln papers, did he realize that Lincoln was a great man. How, then, can we hope now to appraise Wilson—when the great struggle of the twentieth century is still undecided, now when the work which he began, of finding the true place of America in the ordered community of mankind, is still in its first beginnings?
