CHAPTER IX 



THE LAND AND THE EMPIRE 



The maintenance and development of our 

 imperial heritage should be the ideal 

 of every Englishman, and this con- 

 viction should nerve him to make 

 all due effort to secure the fitness of the home 

 population. Englishmen must be fit if they are 

 to carry on the work of empire. The home 

 population — the heart of the empire — must be 

 sound if the outlying members of the empire 

 are to be sound also. 



The Englands beyond the seas are calling 

 aloud for men and women : the mother country 

 must listen to that call, but she must listen as a 

 wise mother and send only those suited to the 

 task that is waiting for them. 



England must not allow herself to send out 

 men that she has need of at home, and equally 

 she must not offer the worthless surplus town 

 population which is useless to her. 



The various Colonial governments are taking 

 such active steps that for some years back they 



327 



