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Excerpt from Some Imperative Needs for the Study of Hispanic, American History in Our Schools and Colleges Of these twenty republics of Hispanic America, some, of their own initiative, may never progress very far beyond the stage to which they have already attained; others as Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, and Cuba have already acquired new importance in the eyes of the world. But aside from individual countries, the Hispanic American republics, taken collectively, or in groups - as Argentine, Brazil, and Chile, which form the famous A. B. C. confederation - have most certainly assumed a very important position in the world today which gives promise of a much greater importance in the years to come. If for no other reason, so great an area and so thinly populated, where such vast natural resources, of which other nations are in need, can be found comparatively untouched, is sure to exercise some day a strong balance of power. The last generation witnessed the rise of the United States of America to the highest pinnacle of power and influence; it is no wild stretch of the imagination to point out the possibility of a corresponding development of Hispanic America in the next few generations. So much for Hispanic America in general and for its potential possibilities. It is the purpose of this paper, however, to show, in the first place, the relation between the historical development of Hispanic America and the expansion and development of European civilization in general, and, in the second place, to explain the particular interest and connection between certain important but often over-looked facts in Hispanic American history and other better known ones in the historical development of the United States of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.