Is the time and brainpower of our legislators, and of those of our colonies too, to be diverted perpetually from their own special concerns and the improvement of their own people, to the more showy but less fruitful task of keeping together and managing an artificial Empire?
Morley questions whether the focus on maintaining an empire detracts from addressing the needs of local populations.
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