Excerpt from Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, Vol. 6: Publications of the Year 1901
Imperium et Libertas, A Study in History and Politics. By Bernard Holland. London: Edward Arnold, 1901. Pp. 379.
This book has one of those loose titles that may mean anything. What, however, Mr. Holland discusses is the conditions that will furnish real liberty to each nation within the British Empire and yet not weaken the sense of unity. For the last four or five years we have had imperialism discussed from the platform and by the press until the subject is threadbare, and yet it may fairly be doubted if we are a step nearer organic unity than we were before. The tremendous difficulties of the problem become more apparent as they are more closely scrutinized. How shall Australia and Canada retain the full measure of liberty which they enjoy, and which they are unlikely to surrender, and yet come under the authority of a central Parliament? Mr. Holland is aware of these difficulties and he is cautious about suggesting a brand-new scheme of imperial federation.
His plan is less ambitious. The book is an able attempt to estimate the principles that past failures and successes should impress upon the present-day imperialist. To the first conspicuous failure and the first conspicuous success he devotes two-thirds of the work. The failure is of course Britain"s government of her first American colonies; the success is the system which matured in Canada in the nineteenth century. Of the failure we need say little here.
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