ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the nations at the lowest level of the scale of Latin civilisation: the twenty-two Latin republics of America. Among the greater number of the Latin peoples few but the so-called directing classes are becoming more eager for the expensive refinements of civilisation. Peopled by exhausted races, without energy, without initiative, without morality, without strength of will, the twenty-two Latin republics of America, although situated in the richest countries of the earth, are incapable of making use of their immense resources. From the Latin republics of America let pass to the Latin monarchies of Europe. Before becoming republics all these provinces were under the rule of Spain. To Spain remained Cuba and the Philippines; she subjected them to such rapacious exploitation, to administrators so corrupt and ferocious, as to provoke an exasperated rising on the part of the natives, and the intervention of strangers.
