Category: History - American

The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People

WHEN the sun disappeared on the last day of the Nineteenth Century, it left in the horizon vivid pictures of two unexpected and incomplete events, whose influences will penetrate far into the realm of future history and throw light upon the great records which will be made in...

Chapters

8. CHAPTER VII

I. The Dominion of Canada voluntarily to divide itself into different states, geographically arranged as its citizens desire, in proportion to population, and each state to be a...

1. CHAPTER I

WHEN the sun disappeared on the last day of the Nineteenth Century, it left in the horizon vivid pictures of two unexpected and incomplete events, whose influences will penetrat...

4. CHAPTER IV

"_Considering that the people of the British Empire and of the United States of America are closely allied in blood, inherit the same literature and laws, hold the same principl...

3. CHAPTER III

Let our competency and integrity of purpose be judged by our present lives, by our civilisation and government, and by our past history. When we discuss the ability, competency,...

2. CHAPTER II

Out of the conditions and events to which I have first alluded there arose what I call a desultory, scattered, but emphatic, sentiment among many English-Americans for a closer...

5. d. The germ of a ministry responsible directly to parliament

From all which great and _wholly_ self-derived institutions were created the instrumentalities of all political progress, both at home and abroad. Holland, it is true, had toler...

6. CHAPTER V

I NOW pass into another sphere of thought not less important than the one I have just left, but where the motives found are of a purely selfish and practical nature. It is said...

7. CHAPTER VI

I HAVE already spoken of the ineffectiveness, in truth I should say the hollowness, of mere expressions of good feeling, of the airy and fleeting _entente cordiale_, between the...