CHAPTER VII

HOW COLONIES ARE OWNED

Why twentieth-century methods must differ from eighteenth--The vagueness of our conceptions of statecraft--How Colonies are "owned"--Some little-recognized facts--Why foreigners could not fight England for her self-governing Colonies--She does not "own" them, since they are masters of their own destiny--The paradox of conquest: England in a worse position in regard to her own Colonies than in regard to foreign nations--Her experience as the oldest and most practised colonizer in history--Recent French experience--Could Germany hope to do what England cannot do 107-130