He had hitherto sat silent and motionless, taking the successive addresses from one officer and handing them to another to be placed upon the table.  The chief subject under discussion had been World Peace, which he could have, and in my opinion, would have secured, had he not been surrounded by the military caste which inevitably gathers about one born to the throne—­a caste which usually becomes as permanent as the potentate himself, and which has so far in Germany proved its power of control whenever the war issue has been presented.  Until militarism is subordinated, there can be no World Peace.

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As I read this to-day [1914], what a change!  The world convulsed by war as never before!  Men slaying each other like wild beasts!  I dare not relinquish all hope.  In recent days I see another ruler coming forward upon the world stage, who may prove himself the immortal one.  The man who vindicated his country’s honor in the Panama Canal toll dispute is now President.  He has the indomitable will of genius, and true hope which we are told,

    “Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

Nothing is impossible to genius!  Watch President Wilson!  He has Scotch blood in his veins.

[Here the manuscript ends abruptly.]

[Illustration:  ANDREW CARNEGIE AT SKIBO

(1914)]

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

MR. CARNEGIE’s chief publications are as follows: 

An American Four-in-Hand in Britain. New York, 1884.

Round the World. New York, 1884.

Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. New York, 1886.

The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays. New York, 1900.

The Empire of Business. New York, 1903.

James Watt. New York, 1905.

Problems of To-day.  Wealth—­Labor—­Socialism. New York, 1908.

He was a contributor to English and American magazines and newspapers, and many of the articles as well as many of his speeches have been published in pamphlet form.  Among the latter are the addresses on Edwin M. Stanton, Ezra Cornell, William Chambers, his pleas for international peace, his numerous dedicatory and founders day addresses.  A fuller list of these publications is given in Margaret Barclay Wilson’s A Carnegie Anthology, privately printed in New York, 1915.

A great many articles have been written about Mr. Carnegie, but the chief sources of information are: 

ALDERSON (BERNARD). Andrew Carnegie.  The Man and His Work. New York, 1905.

BERGLUND (ABRAHAM). The United States Steel Corporation. New York, 1907.

CARNEGIE (ANDREW). How I served My Apprenticeship as a
Business Man. Reprint from Youth’s Companion.  April 23, 1896.