This is the condition of most empires. It is the condition. for example. of our own Empire in India. The English State is powerful there. but the English nation is but an imperceptible drop in the ocean of an Asiatic population. And when a nation extends itself into other territories the chances are that it will there meet with other nationalities which it can not destroy or completely drive out. even if it succeeds in conquering them. When this happens it has a great and permanent difficulty to contend with. The subject or rival nationalities can not be perfectly assimilated and remain as a permanent cause of weakness and danger. It has been the fortune of England in extending itself to evade on the whole this danger. for it has occupied parts of the globe which were so empty that they offered an unbounded scope for new settlement. There was land for every emigrant who chose to come. and the native races were not in a condition sufficiently advanced to withstand even the peaceful competition. much less the power. of the immigrants. I desire to draw attention to the difference between extending nationality and extending empire. This author states a truth which is read in the history of every exteusion of the rule of a superior race over millions of an inferior race inhabiting a country where the superior race can not impress upon the inferior race its institutions.
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