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without foreign alliances, but she has the 



devotion of all her children ; and it may 

 interest her friends in Germany [one can 

 imagine the savage resentment with which 

 the foolish young Emperor of Germany 

 must have read the words], to know that 

 the territory of the single British colony 

 whose governor we are honoring to-night 

 is tlnee times as large as the whole Ger- 

 man Empire ; and that of such colonies 

 Great Britain has to-night no less than 

 seven," — in other words, that the Colonial 

 Dominion, alone, of Great Britain is no 

 less than twenty-one times as large as the 

 whole Empire of Germany. 



Now, then, have you ever stopped to 

 consider what such a statement as that, 

 made by a government official, scrupu- 

 lously careful as to his facts, really means? 

 Have we ever stopped to consider the 

 larger question, — what that is which this 

 amazing reproduction upon all sorts of 

 foreign soils of the Anglo-Saxon really 

 stands for? There is no fact, so far as 

 my observation goes, so significant and 

 yet so little appreciated in all our modern 

 history as this. Think how much older 

 the civilizations of the Latin races are 



