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8.
We must keep steadily extending our frontiers north-
ward along the Baltic and southward along the shores of the
Black Sea,
9.
We must progress as much as possible in the direction
of CONSTANTINOPLE and INDIA. He who can once get possession of
these points is the real ruler of the world. With this view we
must provoke constant quarrels - at one time with TURKEY, and at
another with PERSIA. We must establish wharves and docks in the
Euxine (Black Sea) and by degrees make ourselves masters of that
sea, as well as of the Baltic, which is a doubly important ele-
ment in the success of our plan. We must hasten the downfall of
PERSIA; push on to the Persian Gulf; if possible, reestablish
the ancient commercial intercourse with the Levant through SYRIA;
and force our way into the Indies, which are storehouses of the
world; once there, we can dispense with English gold.
10.
Moreover, we must take pains to establish and maintain
an internate union with Austria, apparently countenancing her
schemes for future aggrandizement in GERMANY, and all the while
secretly rousing the jealousy of the minor states against her.
In this way we must bring it to pass that one or the other party
shall seek aid from RUSSIA; and thus we shall exercise a sort of
protectorate over the country, which will pave the way for future
supremacy
11.
We must make the house of AUSTRIA interested in the
expulsion of Turks from Europe, and we must neutralize its jeal-
ousy at the capture of CONSTANTINOPLE, either by preoccupying it
with a war with the old European states, or by allowing it a share
of the spoil, which we can afterward resume at our leisure.
12.
We must collect around our house, as round a center,
all the detached section of Greeks which are scattered abroad in
HUNGARY, TURKEY, and South POLAND; we must make them look to us
for support, and thus by establishing beforehand a sort of
ecclesiastical supremacy, we shall pave the way for universal
sovereignty.
13.
When SWEDEN is ours, PERSIA vanquished, POLAND sub ju-
gated, TURKEY conquered, - when our armies are united, and the
Euxine and the Baltic in the possession of our ships, then we
must make separate and secret overtures, first to the court of
Versailles, and then to that of VIENNA, to share with them the
dominion of the world. If either of them accepts our propositions,
which is certain to happen if their ambition and self-interest is
properly worked upon, we must make use of one to annihilate the
other; this done, we have only to destroy the remaining one by
finding a pretext for a quarrel, the issue of which cannot be
doubtful as RUSSIA will be already in the absolute possession
of the east and of the best part of Europe.
14.
Should the improbable case happen of both rejecting
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