… had prospered for too long across the Channel: ‘There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy’, 2 as Frank Frankfort Moore would say. 1 . Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim [1784], trans. Allen … (eds.), Immanuel Kant: Anthropology, History and Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 111. 2 . Frank Frankfort Moore, A Trial Marriage (New York: Empire Book Company, 1907), p. 9. The ‘battle of the books’: unsociable …