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offspring of the loyalists, that it was for an ideal which at present ani- 
mates so large a section of the Anglo-saxon race, that our ancestors 
were ready, more than a century ago, to sacrifice all that seemed to 
make life valuable. 
What that ideal was, has perhaps never been better formulated than 
in the words of the historian Lecky : 
“It was the maintenance of one free industrial and pacific empire 
comprising the whole English race, holding the richest plains of Asia 
in subjection, blending all that was most venerable in an ancient civili- 
zation with the redundant energies of a youthful society, and likely in 
a few generations to outstrip every competitor and acquire an indis- 
putable ascendency in the globe.” 
“ Such an ideal,” he adds, in words which have been, before now, 
quoted before this Society, ‘ may have been a dream, but it was at least 
a noble one, and there were Americans who were prepared to make any 
personal sacrifice rather than assist in destroying it.” 
