Excerpt from The Colonies and the Century
Just thirty years have passed since it fell to my lot to read before the Royal Colonial Institute, then in the first year of its existence, a paper on "The Social Aspects of Colonisation." It was associated with another, more statistical in its character, upon "The Progress of the Colonies," which I had been asked to read during the same week before the Society of Arts. Strange as it may now seem that such an attempt should even then have been thought necessary, the object of both papers was to vindicate the work of British colonisation, and to prove by facts and figures that the colonies had contributed in the past, and would continue to contribute in the future, to the prosperity and advantage of the parent land.
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