There would be nothing capricious or perverse in treating the expansion of England over the seas as strictly secondary to the expansion of England within her own shores, and to all the causes of it in the material resources and the energy and ingenuity of her sons at home.
Morley suggests that the expansion of England overseas should be viewed as secondary to its internal developments.
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