Imperial Federation of Great Britain and Her Colonies: In LettersS.W. Silver, 1876 - 184 páginas |
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Imperial Federation of Great Britain and Her Colonies Sir Frederick Young (K.C.M.G.) Vista completa - 1876 |
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Página 141 - Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle flags were furl'd . In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. '/ There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm / in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Página 139 - Fertile continents still inhabited by wild beasts are " mine, into which all the distressed populations of Europe " might pour themselves, and make at once an Old World " and a New World human. By the eternal fiat of the gods, " this must yet one day be ; this, by all the Divine Silences " that rule this Universe, silent to fools, eloquent and awful " to the hearts of the wise, is incessantly at this moment, " and at all moments, commanded to begin to be. Un" speakable deliverance, and new destiny...
Página 132 - Federation," p. 134, who says : — " The law of political as of all progress seems to me to be this : first, we hear a few whispers in the cabinet of the student; then the question passes into the area of scientific inquiry; finally, after long maturing, after a severe and searching controversy, it enters the sphere of actual truth, and moulds human action." The Colonies, however, were rapidly passing out of their infant years. Their marvellous growth had eclipsed all experience or expectation....
Página 172 - It shouldn't be England and her colonies, but they should be integral parts of one great whole — all counties of Great Britain.
Página 174 - And, lastly, we ought to take every opportunity of showing that we consider the colonists our countrymen, and every colony part of the common country, and especially we ought to welcome every step that any colony might take in measures of common defence.
Página 178 - Whatever may be our relations with our Australian Colonies fifty or a hundred years hence, we cannot be wrong now in keeping up a loyal union between all the distant members of the Greater Britain that is to be. There can be no possibility of error in such a policy as this. It is quite possible that Sir George Bowen and our other Colonial Governors may be preparing the way for the grandest Federation of States the world has witnessed...
Página 183 - This publication is one of considerable value. It affords much general and local information about South Africa, as well as forming a handy book of reference, for which hitter purpose it is well qualified by the capital method of arrangement observed throughout, and by the addition of a gazetteer and index.
Página 183 - All the facts are given soberly and drily, without any attempt at enthusiastic description or the graces of style. This, we are convinced, must oe to the advantage of the intending emigrant, who has been too often misled by highly coloured and attractive de•criptions.
Página 178 - For some time yet it can only be a dream ; but it is a dream wl/ich we are the better for indulging in, and the day in which it will be fulfilled literally may be nearer than any of us suppose. It is something meanwhile to be assured that events are proceeding in the right direction. Whatever may be our relations with our Australian Colonies fifty or a hundred...
Página 172 - It should be no more a bar to a man's promotion, as it is now, that he lived beyond the seas, than living the other side of the channel. It should be our navy, our army, our nation. That's a great word, but the English keep it to themselves, and colonists have no nationality. They have no place, no station, no rank.