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cease to struggle ; let us leave the lands of 

 the world to the races that cannot profit by 

 them to the full ; let us cease to compete in 

 the markets of the world. Well, we could 

 do it, if we were a small nation living on the 

 produce of our own soil, and a soil so worth- 

 less that no other race envied it and sought 

 to appropriate it. We should cease to ad- 

 vance ; but then we should naturally give up 

 progress as a good which comes through 

 suffering. I say it is possible for a small 

 rural community to stand apart from the 

 world-contest and to stagnate, if no more 

 powerful nation wants its possessions. 



But are we such a community ? Is it not 

 a fact that the daily bread of our millions 

 of workers depends on their having some- 

 body to work for ? that if we give up the 

 contest for trade-routes and for free markets 

 and for waste lands, we indirectly give up our 

 food-supply ? Is it not a fact that our strength 

 depends on these and upon our colonies, and 

 that our colonies have been won by the ejec- 

 tion of inferior races, and are maintained 

 against equal races only by respect for the 

 present power of our empire? If war or 



