The history of the enlargement of the English state, the last survivor of a family of great colonial empires, has a vivid reality at a time when Australasia is calling upon us once more to extend our borders, and take new races under our sway.
He emphasizes the relevance of England's colonial expansion in light of current calls for territorial growth.
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What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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