whose nucleus is only 120,000 square miles, with 40,000,000 population.
For so small a nation to add to its domains in the course of a single generation an area of 4,754,000 square miles [4], with an estimated population of 88,000,000, is a historical fact of great significance.
Accepting Sir Robert Giffen’s estimate [5] of the size of our Empire (including Egypt and the Soudan) at about 13,000,000 square miles, with a population of some 400 to 420 millions (of whom about 50,000,000 are of British race and speech), we find that one-third of this Empire, containing quite one-fourth of the total population of the Empire, has been