...Pacific. "The Mediterranean era declined with the Roman Empire and died with the discovery of America. The Atlantic era is now at the height of its development,...and must soon exhaust the resources at its command." With Japan looming large upon the horizon of Far-Eastern politics; with China on the eve of great events,...

...expressed the same belief: " The Mediterranean era," he says, " died with the discovery of America. The Atlantic era is now at the height of its development...The Pacific era, destined to be the greatest of all, ... is just at the dawn." If this be true, if the Pacific is to be the center of the world's interest,...

...almost the appearance of originality, said: "The Mediterranean era died with the discovery of America; the Atlantic era is now at the height of its development...command; the Pacific era, destined to be the greatest, is just at the dawn." Our own sea-frontage on the Pacific of nautical miles to be protected, patrolled,...

...shift once more westward to the Pacific." As Ex-president Roosevelt expressed it, not many years ago, "The Pacific Era destined to be the greatest of all,...and to bring the whole human race at last into one great comity of nations, is just at the dawn." Whether the Pacific will actually surpass the Atlantic...

...of events in the world's great hereafter." Ex-President Roosevelt declared not many years ago that " the Pacific era, destined to be the greatest of all...into one comity of nations, is just at the dawn." Have the American people as a whole risen to the height of prophetic vision that inspired those statesmen?...

...great hereafter." Equally prescient, Former President Roosevelt, declared " the Pacific era, designed to be the greatest of all and to bring the whole human...into one comity of nations, is just at the dawn." The Panama Canal has been constructed since these two statesmen made their predic102 tions ; and this...

...interest to us? "The era of the Mediterranean Sea died with the discovery of America," said Theodore Roosevelt. "The Atlantic era is now at the height...exhaust the resources at its command." "The Pacific Ocean," said WH Seward fifty-seven years ago (1861), "its shores, its islands, and the vast regions...

...Roosevelt, when he said : The Mediterranean era declined with the Roman Empire and the discovery of America. The Atlantic era is now at the height of its development...and to bring the whole human race at last into one great comity of nations — is just at dawn. Man, in his migration westward, has at last traversed...

...ago : "The Mediterranean era declined with the Roman Empire and died with the discovery of America. The Atlantic era is now at the height of its development...and to bring the whole human race at last into one great comity of nations, is just at the dawn. Man, in his migration westward, has at last traversed...

...Roosevelt twenty years ago sound like rhetoric: "The Mediterranean era died with the discovery of America. The Atlantic era is now at the. height of its development...The Pacific era, destined to be the greatest of all, is just at its dawn." The economic aftermath of the World War has made this prophecy regarding the...