Great Britain and Canada
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Great Britain and Canada: Topics of the Day Our destinies are bound up with the destinies of Great Britain and, to a large extent, with those of the United States. Of course, I am not referring here to the political link which binds us to the British Crown: were it not for the many ligaments from which it derives its whole strength, British connection would, indeed, amount to very little. From Great Britain, we hold the constitution under which we live - an offspring of British maturity. How could we thoroughly understand that constitution, how could we master the secret of its vitality, and foresee what fruit it may bear, without knowing the old parent-tree, a mere branch of which it is? Moreover, upon that constitution we have grafted certain elements, borrowed from the American constitution, and copied from such portions of the work of the Adams, Madisons and Hamiltons as most materially differ from British institutions: that is, our federative form of constitutional government. The majority of the Canadian people are of British extraction. Their implantation into the American soil being of recent date, they are less acclimatised than we are on this continent. In the life of the Mother country they participate more than we do. In short, they are more English than we are French; and occasionally, even more English than the native of Lancashire, or Somersetshire. Of British and American capital our industries, our trade, our financial institutions, our means of communication were born, and upon the same capital they still feed and grow and develop. Therefore, in its origin, as well as in its operations, our industrial life is either English, or American. Materalism is the chief characteristic of our age. On this continent especially, financial interests are overwhelmingly predominant: Intelligence has to pick up the crumbs that Wealth allows to fall from its table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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