Within the Empire

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Excerpt from Within the Empire: An Essay on Imperial FederationFive years have elapsed since I read a paper before the Montreal Branch of the Imperial Federation League in Canada entitled, A United Empire. In writing this, and a good many other articles, which have since appeared in the columns of Imperial Federation, and other journals, it seemed to me as if the advantages to be derived from a consolidation of the Empire increased, and the difficulties in the way of such a consummation decreased with every renewed consideration of the subject. I have since become a firm believer in the practicability of a closer British Union, and have endeavoured in this essay to recast the articles above re ferred to, incorporate them with new matter and place them before my fel low countrymen in the hope of induc ing in them a'like faith. It is not my object to provide an original scheme for the reconstruction of the British Em pire, for many of the suggestions here embodied have long been before the public. But I have tried to imitate theexample of Watt with the steam engine, and to so combine these as to produce a plan which may ultimately result in the construction of a political machine, capable of working well and harmoniously for the common weal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.