Excerpt from The Legislative Union of England Scotland the Ford Lectures, Delivered in Hilary Term, 1914 A natural reason for my choice of the Legislative Union of England and Scotland as the subject of the Ford Lectures was its common interest for both countries. At the present epoch, moreover, the Union of 1707 may be said to have a direct and special interest. The problem which the statesmen of the reign of Queen Anne had to solve has close analogies with the problem which has confronted their successors in recent years ...
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Excerpt from The Legislative Union of England Scotland the Ford Lectures, Delivered in Hilary Term, 1914 A natural reason for my choice of the Legislative Union of England and Scotland as the subject of the Ford Lectures was its common interest for both countries. At the present epoch, moreover, the Union of 1707 may be said to have a direct and special interest. The problem which the statesmen of the reign of Queen Anne had to solve has close analogies with the problem which has confronted their successors in recent years. I did not consider it within my scope to suggest these analogies, which, indeed, cannot be missed in any presentment of the circumstances in which the union of the English and Scottish Parlia ments was effected. Neither has it been my Object to draw any specific lessons for the present from the past. Identical problems do not recur in human history, and each age has to find the solution of its own. If the study of the past, however, does not afford direct guidance for the present, it may have its own in uence on the temper and attitude of mind with which existing problems are approached. 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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