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To quote the old simile of a stone thrown into a pool, the ripples extend and widen long after the stone has sunk and the splash subsided.
But, on the other hand, I most emphatically protest against the doctrine that retrocession is, under any circumstance, inadmissable, and that territory once annexed must be for ever held, that the prestige, and perhaps the very existence of the Empire, is to be staked if necessary, on the retention of every wretched settlement or island we may now, or in the future, hold in any part of the world. There are many places which I think we should consider as held only on the condition that they continue to serve the particular purpose for which they were taken, and from which therefore we might at some time recede, with positive advantage to ourselves and without injustice to others.
We come now to the consideration of what is our colonial Empire, what are its component parts, and their respective areas, populations, trade, climates, and system of government.
To treat this part of my subject fully would, of course, require a separate work on each colony - many of which works by-the - bye are already in existence. For my present purpose it may be sufficient, I think, to give a summary as in the accompanying list, which embraces a concise statement on all the above matters.
In this list I have had to include the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as also India and Burmah, but I do not propose further to refer to these to-night, as India alone offers more than sufficient matter for a separate address.
I may, however, point out that the government business of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man still passes through the Home Office, as these islands have always been considered as integral parts, not only of the Empire at large, but specially of the United Kingdom, although they have peculiar laws and administrative arrangements of their own.
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Excerpt from The Colonies, and Their Connection With the Mother Country: With a Statistical List of the British Empire in 1886 Appended; An Address to the Members of the Above Institute, on Tuesday, February 1st, 1887
To quote the old simile of a stone thrown into a pool, the ripples extend and widen long after the stone has sunk and the splash subsided.
But, on the other hand, I most emphatically protest against the doctrine that retrocession is, under any circumstance, inadmissable, and that territory once annexed must be for ever held, that the prestige, and perhaps the very existence of the Empire, is to be staked if necessary, on the retention of every wretched settlement or island we may now, or in the future, hold in any part of the world. There are many places which I think we should consider as held only on the condition that they continue to serve the particular purpose for which they were taken, and from which therefore we might at some time recede, with positive advantage to ourselves and without injustice to others.
We come now to the consideration of what is our colonial Empire, what are its component parts, and their respective areas, populations, trade, climates, and system of government.
To treat this part of my subject fully would, of course, require a separate work on each colony - many of which works by-the - bye are already in existence. For my present purpose it may be sufficient, I think, to give a summary as in the accompanying list, which embraces a concise statement on all the above matters.
In this list I have had to include the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as also India and Burmah, but I do not propose further to refer to these to-night, as India alone offers more than sufficient matter for a separate address.
I may, however, point out that the government business of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man still passes through the Home Office, as these islands have always been considered as integral parts, not only of the Empire at large, but specially of the United Kingdom, although they have peculiar laws and administrative arrangements of their own.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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If we wish to retain our own with certainty, and not subject only to the forbearance or goodwill of others, we must look to material as well as to moral power. We may be just and good, we must also be great and strong.
Now Professor Seeley in his admirable work, "The Expansion of England," which I strongly commend to your notice, points out that England's rank amongst nations is dependant on the retention, in some form or another, of her connection with the colonies, without them she may manage to hold a place in Europe, barely equal to Germany or France, but in any dispute, where might is right, she must some day succumb to the United States, to Russia, and probably in the more distant future to China, and to her own late Australian possessions.
With them, firmly bound up with her by ties of interest and affection, she must rank, certainly not last among the four (admitting China) Great States of the future, here in another form we have St Chrysostom's "natural temptation."
Bigness, as Professor Seeley says, may not be greatness, and we may hold the first rank morally and intellectually, though materially but a second or third rate Power, but as neither greatness nor moral and intellectual excellence are incompatible with bigness, and as that alone can enable us to protect our own with certainty, I do not see why we should not endeavour to retain the colonies as a whole, alike by the continued assertion of our authority over the Crown Colonies and India, and by a closer combination with the self-governing ones.
Nor must we forget that our colonial Empire once lost can never be replaced.
Through the folly and obstinacy of our rulers and the political ignorance of the people we lost our first colonies and the United States, though still bound closer to us by ties of blood and language than any other country, is nevertheless a separate and sometimes a hostile nation.
I know that there are many who believe that this separation must have happened in any event, but even if it was so, it would have been much better that it should have happened by mutual consent and in a friendly spirit, as well might have been, had the wishes and feelings of the Americans been better understood by the English people or their rulers, and it is for more consideration of colonial questions that I am about to contend generally to-night.
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