The Wisdom of the Wise; Three Lectures On Free Trade Imperialism
The Wisdom of the Wise; Three Lectures On Free Trade Imperialism
Cunningham, W. (William), 1849-1919
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154. 44 THE WISDOM OF THE WISE responsible government to Canada were the most im- portant step in the advance of the Colonies daring the nineteenth century, and this occurred in 1840, during the preferential period. The active work of Wakefield and the Society for systematic colonisation was commenced during the same era : Mr Strachey ignores them altogether and asserts that ''almost all the audible voices were raised against the continu- ance " of the Empire. At least the duty of Englishmen wa...s not forgotten at one centre of sound learning and religious education. William Whewell, then a Fellow of Trinity, was a man of a truly Imperial spirit. ''Our place among the isles of the ocean, our fair havens and lofty beacon-sites, our commerce and our fleets, our stores and treasures, are thus held by us as subjects and servants of the Gk)vemor of the Universe \ Nor is this all: our better and finer possessions, our advantages of character and mind, are no less held and exercised under His control and guidance ; — ^the endowments of the soul, courage and invention, energy and endurance; the indomitable will, which no resistance of the elemental world can tame; the heart which can brace the sinews under the fierce smiting of the tropical sun ; the eye which can look steadfastly, though the ice close round like a tomb, and life seem departing with departing light and warmth; the temper on which hope deferred acts only as a firesh stimulus to action ; the sagacity in governing distant lands, which is sharpened, not ^ On Bdigion amd Political Life, see below, p.
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