The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914)

The Great Events by Famous
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Title: The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 The Recent
Days (1910-1914)
Author: Charles F. Horne, Editor
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THE GREAT EVENTS
BY
FAMOUS HISTORIANS

A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE
WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT
EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE
NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST
EMINENT HISTORIANS
NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL
ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS
GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF
AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS
BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE
CELEBRATED NARRATIVES. ARRANGED
CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF
READING
EDITED BY
CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
Aided by a staff of specialists
CONTENTS
VOLUME XXI
An Outline Narrative of the Great Events CHARLES F. HORNE
The United States House of Governors (_A.D. 1910_) WILLIAM S.
JORDAN THE GOVERNORS
Union of South Africa (_A.D. 1910_) PROF. STEPHEN LEACOCK
Portugal Becomes a Republic (_A.D. 1910_) WILLIAM ARCHER
The Crushing of Finland (_A.D. 1910_) JOHN JACKOL BARON
SERGIUS WITTE BARON VON PLEHVE J.H. REUTER
_Man's Fastest Mile_ (_A.D. 1911_) C.F. CARTER ISAAC
MARCOSSON
The Fall of Diaz (_A.D. 1911_) MRS. E.A. TWEEDIE DOLORES

BUTTERFIELD
Fall of the English House of Lords (_A.D. 1911) ARTHUR
PONSONBY SYDNEY BROOKS CAPTAIN GEORGE SWINTON
_The Turkish-Italian War_ (_A.D. 1911_) WILLIAM T. ELLIS THE
WAR CORRESPONDENTS
Woman Suffrage (_A.D. 1911_) IDA HUSTED HARPER ISRAEL
ZANGWILL JANE ADDAMS DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE ELBERT
HUBBARD
Militarism (_A.D. 1911_) NORMAN ANGELL SIR MAX
WAECHTER
_Persia's Loss of Liberty_ (_A.D. 1911_) W. MORGAN SHUSTER
Discovery of the South Pole (_A.D. 1911_) ROALD AMUNDSEN
The Chinese Revolution (_A.D. 1912_) ROBERT MACHRAY R.F.
JOHNSTON TAI-CHI QUO
A Step Toward World Peace (_A.D. 1912_) HON. WILLIAM H.
TAFT
_Tragedy of the "Titanic"_ (_A.D. 1912_) W.A. INGLIS
Our Progressing Knowledge of Life Surgery (_A.D. 1912_)
GENEVIEVE GRANDCOURT PROFESSOR R. LEGENDRE
Overthrow of Turkey by the Balkan States (_A.D. 1912_) J. ELLIS
BARKER FREDERICK PALMER PROF. STEPHEN P. DUGGAN
Mexico Plunged Into Anarchy (_A.D. 1913_) EDWIN EMERSON
WILLIAM CAROL
The New Democracy (_A.D. 1913_) PRESIDENT WOODROW
WILSON

The Income Tax in America (_A.D. 1913_) JOSEPH A. HILL
The Second Balkan War (_A.D. 1913_) PROF. STEPHEN P.
DUGGAN CAPT. A.H. TRAPMANN
Opening of the Panama Canal (_A.D. 1914_) COL. GEORGE W.
GOETHALS BAMPFYLDE FULLER
Universal Chronology (_1910-1914_)

AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE
TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND
CONSEQUENCES OF
THE GREAT EVENTS
THE RECENT DAYS (1910-1914)
CHARLES F. HORNE
The awful, soul-searing tragedy of Europe's great war of 1914 came to
most men unexpectedly. The real progress of the world during the five
years preceding the war had been remarkable. All thinkers saw that the
course of human civilization was being changed deeply, radically; but
the changes were being accomplished so successfully that men hoped
that the old brutal ages of military destruction were at an end, and that
we were to progress henceforth by the peaceful methods of evolution
rather than the hysterical excitements and volcanic upheavals of
revolution.
Yet even in the peaceful progress of the half-decade just before 1914
there were signs of approaching disaster, symptoms of hysteria. This
period displayed the astonishing spectacle of an English parliament,
once the high example for dignity and the model for self-control among
governing bodies, turned suddenly into a howling, shrieking mob. It
beheld the Japanese, supposedly the most extravagantly loyal among
devotees of monarchy, unearthing among themselves a conspiracy of
anarchists so wide-spread, so dangerous, that the government held their
trials in secret and has never dared reveal all that was discovered. It
beheld the women of Persia bursting from the secrecy of their harems
and with modern revolvers forcing their own democratic leaders to

stand firm in patriotic resistance to Russian tyranny. It beheld the
English suffragettes.
Yet the movement toward universal Democracy which lay behind all
these extravagances was upon the whole a movement borne along by
calm conviction, not by burning hatreds or ecstatic devotions. A
profound sense of the inevitable trend of the world's evolution seemed
to have taken possession of the minds of the masses of men. They felt
the uselessness of opposition to this universal progress, and they
showed themselves ready, sometimes eager, to aid and direct its trend