...themselves, and endeavour to awaken the people. If the project cannot be completed, it ought to be given up. If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...time that Great Britain should free herself from the expence of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military...

...themselves, and endeavour to awaken the people. If tbe project cannot be completed, it ought to be given up. If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it it surely time that Great Britain should fr« herself from the expense of defending those provinces...

...perhaps be considered as appendages, as a sort of splendid and showy equipage of the empire. * * * * If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...civil or military establishments in time of peace."* It cannot, however, be laid down generally, that a dependency is of no value to the dominant country...

...perhaps be considered as appendages, as a sort of splendid and showy equipage of the empire. * * * * If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...civil or military establishments in time of peace."* It cannot, however, be laid down generally, that a dependency is of no value to the dominant country...

...the expense of conquering, keeping, and protecting. This absurd practice led Adam Smith to say that " if any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...herself from the expense of defending those provinces hi time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or military establishments in time of peace,...

...without augmenting the area of its resources;" — that, and this is the final sentence of the book, " if any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...establishments in time of peace, and endeavour to accommodate lier future views and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances." A strange passage, considering...

...profit); and if the project of such an empire cannot be completed, the golden dream ought to be abandoned. If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...of war, and of supporting any part of their civil and military establishments in time of peace, and endeavour to accommodate her future views and designs...

...people. If tbt project cannot be completed, it ought to b* given up. If any of the provinces of UK British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it it surely time that Great Britain should fiée herself from the expense of defending tbo&r provinces...

...hundred years ago (in 1776) Adam Smith ended the first edition of his great work with the words : — " If any of the provinces of the British Empire cannot...empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should . . . endeavour to accommodate her future views and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances."...

...empire . . . without once augmenting its resources;"! that (and this is the final sentence of the book) "If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot...civil or military establishments in time of peace, and endeavor to accommodate her future views and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances,"...