CHAPTER I

THE PROBLEM OF UNITY

The foundations of unity: religion, language, and similarity of development--Neither Europe, nor Asia, nor Africa presents this moral unity in the same degree as Latin America--The future groupings of the peoples: Central America, the Confederation of the Antilles, Greater Colombia, the Confederation of the Pacific, and the Confederation of La Plata--Political and economical aspects of these unions--The last attempts at federation in Central America--The Bolivian Congress--The A.B.C.--the union of the Argentine, Brazil, and Chili.