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1 68 The Future in Relation to

horrible conditions under which the Armenian
subjects of Turkey have lived and are living.
When such conditions obtain, they can be pro-
longed only by the general indifference or mu-
tual jealousies of the other peoples concerned—

as in the instance of Turkey— or because there
is sufficient force to perpetuate the misrule, in
which case the right is inalienable only until
its misuse brings ruin, or until a stronger force
appears to dispossess it. It is because so
much of the world still remains in the posses-
sion of the savage, or of states whose imperfect
development, political or economical, does not
enable them to realize for the general use
nearly the result of which the territory is
capable, while at the same time the redundant
energies of civilized states, both government
and peoples, are finding lack of openings and
scantiness of livelihood at home, that there
now obtains a condition of aggressive restless-
ness with which all have to reckon.
That the United States does not now share
this tendency is entirely evident. Neither her
government nor her people are affected by it
;o any great extent. But the force of circum-
stances has imposed upon her the necessity,