Pacific The War Center

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Max Nordau Predicts Gigantic Struggles on Great Ocean.

In the course of an exhaustive review of the history of the world, contributed to the Neue Freie Presse of Vienna by Max Nordau, the writer, speaking of the future of the new world, says the opening of the Panama canal under American ownership will mark the beginning of a new epoch. The tragic stage of the world's history, which in ancient times centered in the Mediterranean and which moved in the naval ages to the atlantic, will then be transferred to the Pacific ocean. 

At first the Anglo-Saxon element will seek to drive out the German and French flags floating over single points in the Pacific ocean; then the struggle will be carried farther to the Asiatic coast, where Anglo-Saxons and Russians will have to decide the momentous world question of whether eastern and southern Asia shall remain British or Russian. To this forcast M. Nordau adds:

"One can only imagine with horror what such a gigantic struggle of nations and races will signify."