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ruins of which he is to create universal external commerce. 

 The wars of the future are not to be between nation and 

 nation, but between free trade and protection, and between 

 freedom and liberty. Protection and Liberty are the mother 

 and wet-nurse of socialism and trade unionism. I think we 

 may safely predict that these wars will be the most bloody 

 that the world will ever see, for they will be the death struggle 

 of warfare and democracy, and there is no struggle in life 

 equal to the struggle of despair in death. I have mentioned 

 this briefly here, because I must leave all questions of the 

 future out of this treatise. I can only take the reader up to 

 to-day, for to go into the future as it is opened up to my 

 vision by the Tables of Trinity, is too heavy a task to be 

 undertaken hurriedly. It is one thing to review the past, but 

 one of quite a different horse to predict the future. 



I do not consider this treatise the work of my own 

 brain; it is probably the past memories of and experiences 

 and thoughts of a long line of bishops, archbishops, premiers 

 and statesmen, from whom I have the good luck to be de- 

 scended. I feel certain, my own humble brain could never 

 have conceived it. Six months ago the bulk of the opinions 

 herein expressed had no place in my mind, but they have just 

 trickled in as one logical evolution followed upon another. I 

 have devoted my life to logical deductions, and it is only my 

 confidence in my abilities therein, that gave me courage to 

 undertake this task, and I am sure that none of my readers 

 will be more astonished than I am at the way the hypothesis 

 has developed as the logical sequence grew, and yet I feel the 

 growth has only started, and is yet incomplete in my mind ; 

 and on one or two occasions, so great and varied have the 

 developments been, that I have felt inclined to throw up the 

 sponge in despair at my inability to do justice to my subject. 



