Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke

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СКАЧАТЬ href="#ulink_d56d9c1d-d075-5263-a6ea-d90fb11ffe0b">CHAPTER III. VICTORIA.

       CHAPTER IV. SQUATTER ARISTOCRACY.

       CHAPTER V. COLONIAL DEMOCRACY.

       CHAPTER VI. PROTECTION.

       CHAPTER VII. LABOR.

       CHAPTER VIII. WOMAN.

       CHAPTER IX. VICTORIAN PORTS.

       CHAPTER X. TASMANIA.

       CHAPTER XI. CONFEDERATION.

       CHAPTER XII. ADELAIDE.

       CHAPTER XIII. TRANSPORTATION.

       CHAPTER XIV. AUSTRALIA.

       CHAPTER XV. COLONIES.

       PART IV. INDIA.

       CHAPTER I. MARITIME CEYLON.

       CHAPTER II. KANDY.

       CHAPTER III. MADRAS TO CALCUTTA.

       CHAPTER IV. BENARES.

       CHAPTER V. CASTE.

       CHAPTER VI. MOHAMMEDAN CITIES.

       CHAPTER VII. SIMLA.

       CHAPTER VIII. COLONIZATION.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X. UMRITSUR.

       CHAPTER XI. LAHORE.

       CHAPTER XII. OUR INDIAN ARMY.

       CHAPTER XIII. RUSSIA.

       CHAPTER XIV. NATIVE STATES.

       CHAPTER XV. SCINDE.

       CHAPTER XVI. OVERLAND ROUTES.

       CHAPTER XVII. BOMBAY.

       CHAPTER XVIII. THE MOHURRUM.

       CHAPTER XIX. ENGLISH LEARNING.

       CHAPTER XX. INDIA.

       CHAPTER XXI. DEPENDENCIES.

       CHAPTER XXII. FRANCE IN THE EAST.

       CHAPTER XXIII. THE ENGLISH.

PREFACE.

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      In 1866 and 1867, I followed England round the world: everywhere I was in English-speaking, or in English-governed lands. If I remarked that climate, soil, manners of life, that mixture with other peoples had modified the blood, I saw, too, that in essentials the race was always one.

      The idea which in all the length of my travels has been at once my fellow and my guide—a key wherewith to unlock the hidden things of strange new lands—is a conception, however imperfect, of the grandeur of our race, already girding the earth, which it is destined, perhaps, eventually to overspread.

      In America, the peoples of the world are being fused together, but they are run into an English mould: Alfred‘s laws and Chaucer‘s tongue are theirs whether they would or no. There are men who say that Britain in her age will claim the glory of having planted greater Englands across the seas. They fail to perceive that she has done more than found plantations of her own—that she has imposed her institutions upon the offshoots of Germany, of Ireland, of Scandinavia, and of Spain. Through America, England is speaking to the world.

      Sketches of Saxondom may be of interest even upon humbler grounds: the development of the England of Elizabeth is to be found, not in the Britain of Victoria, but in half the habitable globe. If two small islands are by courtesy styled “Great,” America, Australia, India, must form a Greater Britain.

      C. W. D.

      76 Sloane Street, S. W.

       1st November, 1868.

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