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... South American colonies , anticipated that they would grow up as the United States had grown , and being challenged for his support of them , declared that he had " called a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old ...
... South American colonies , anticipated that they would grow up as the United States had grown , and being challenged for his support of them , declared that he had " called a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old ...
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... South , and recognise the Secession " ; and Mr. Gladstone in 1863 said that the Southern President had made an army , had made a navy , and , more than that , had made a nation . We now know that the North was certain from the first to ...
... South , and recognise the Secession " ; and Mr. Gladstone in 1863 said that the Southern President had made an army , had made a navy , and , more than that , had made a nation . We now know that the North was certain from the first to ...
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... South is magnificent . Never- theless , it is still a question whether the white race can ever be so acclimatised as to live and labour in 66 1 " Already signs are not wanting to show that , stringent as are its provisions , and drastic ...
... South is magnificent . Never- theless , it is still a question whether the white race can ever be so acclimatised as to live and labour in 66 1 " Already signs are not wanting to show that , stringent as are its provisions , and drastic ...
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... South Wales is only beginning to protect native industry , and New Zealand is the only colony that has experi- mented with State insurance , which succeeds because it is all - embracing , and 18 NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER.
... South Wales is only beginning to protect native industry , and New Zealand is the only colony that has experi- mented with State insurance , which succeeds because it is all - embracing , and 18 NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER.
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... South Australia is dis- cussing the same problem . The proposals in England to buy out the Irish landlords , and sell again to a small yeomanry , are steps in the direction . of land nationalisation , though the object is to create new ...
... South Australia is dis- cussing the same problem . The proposals in England to buy out the Irish landlords , and sell again to a small yeomanry , are steps in the direction . of land nationalisation , though the object is to create new ...
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Page 43 - The day will come, and perhaps is not far distant, when the European observer will look round to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow races...
Page 41 - Ali, and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march, they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Page 233 - ... it is melancholy to say it, but the chief, perhaps the only, English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian, is the infidel Gibbon.
Page 1 - We know that coloured and white labour cannot exist side by side; we are well aware that China can swamp us with a single year's surplus of population; and we know that if national existence is sacrificed to the working of a few mines and sugar plantations, it is not the Englishman in Australia alone, but the whole civilised world, that will be the losers.
Page 33 - You know me very ill if you do not think that of all the letters I have ever wrote to You this one gives me the most pleasure, and I want no other return but...
Page 44 - We were struggling among ourselves for supremacy in a world which we thought of as destined to belong to the Aryan races and to the Christian faith; to the letters and arts and charm of social manners which we have inherited from the best times of the past.
Page 59 - He said that the ancient civilizations of the world had been undermined and destroyed by two causes, — the increase of standing armies, and the growth of great cities ; and that modern civilization had now added to these sources of decay a third, in the hypothecation of every nation's property to other nations.