Excerpt from British Experience in Tropical Colonisation It is therefore my opinion that you have much less to learn from Great Britain in this matter than might be expected. Great Britain has won many triumphs in the field of colonisation; but on examina tion they all turn out to have been won in regions outside the tropics. She governed the American continental colonies so well that on at taining their independence they contained a race which in one century has thrown civilisation from the Allegheny Mountains to the ...
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Excerpt from British Experience in Tropical Colonisation It is therefore my opinion that you have much less to learn from Great Britain in this matter than might be expected. Great Britain has won many triumphs in the field of colonisation; but on examina tion they all turn out to have been won in regions outside the tropics. She governed the American continental colonies so well that on at taining their independence they contained a race which in one century has thrown civilisation from the Allegheny Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. To-day we see the great and rising nations of Canada and Australia con tented and loyal under the British flag; the states of South Africa, so recently at bitter feud, are sitting down in harmony to found the third great Britannic federation, under auspices so fair that many a Boer who fought against Great Britain with all the stubborn hardihood of his race, yet feels in his heart of hearts to-day, Profuit int-iris, re dominante, capi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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