Mises Daily
Author:
Lord Acton
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[Excerpted from a lecture delivered in 1866 and published in 1907 in Historical Essays and Studies . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] For many years before the outbreak of the Civil War, the United States had become an object of anxiety or of envy to many, of wonder and curiosity to all mankind.