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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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l to the Britishimagination. This growing sentiment of empireon the part of the British has had many illustra-tions of late. How great a change has comeabout is illustrated in certain facts of history thatMr. Charles Francis Adams has brought to lightin an address published last month. England, America, and Canada. Mr. Adams shows that Senator Sum-ner, as chairman of the ForeignRelations Committee, cherished theidea, after the Civil War, that America shoulddemand, as compensation for the losses incurredthrough aid to the Confederacy, that England The Spiritof Empire. It is hard to seeof what value, di-rect or indirect,a colonial empire would beto Germany, except as anexcuse for ever-increasingnaval expenditures. Themost powerful incentive tocolonial expansion is that in-stinct of race or nationalitywhich seeks the diffusion ofones own kith and kin, onesown language, and ones ownfamiliar institutions, so far aspossible, throughout theworld. The English werefortunate in securing control
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THE GERMAN EMPEROR, PRINCE HENRY. AND THE EMPERORS OLDER SONS. 264 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^/EIV OF REI^IEIVS. withdraw absolutely and finally from all exerciseot authority in the western lieniisphere. Thismight have seemed a logical penalty to exact.Mr. Adams shows, moreover, that the EnglishGovernment, which at that time cared nuich lessfor colonial possessions than for the advantagesof trade with the world at large, would havebeen ready enough to accept as a settlement ofall disputes the transfer of Canada to the UnitedStates, provided the Canadians were willing.The Canadians, on their part, were much morefriendly in those days than they are now ; andinasmuch as the benefits of annexation wouldhave been stupendous in almost every way, theirconsent might not have been so liard to gain.But General Grants great desire for the annex-ation of San Domingo, and Sumners inveteratehostility to it, led to a breach with the administra-tion which resulted in Sumners losing his chair-manship of

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