In short, since the concession of independent legislatures to all the most important colonies, the idea of summoning representatives to the Imperial Parliament is, indeed, as one high colonial authority has declared it to be, a romantic dream.
Morley reflects on the impracticality of summoning colonial representatives to the Imperial Parliament after granting them independent legislatures.
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