ABSTRACT
The Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people; the Russian centers all the authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe. After years of anguished passivity, the democratic peoples rallied, first against Germany, then against the Soviet Union. The despots were defeated, though much precious time had been frittered away in tedious debate before democracy prevailed. The argument that the survival of democracy at home calls for the withdrawal of American power from present and future commitments to the defense of freedom abroad is not only odious but irrational.
