sword, as England won hers in the past?
Does a modern nation need to expand its political boundaries in order to provide for increasing population?
If England could conquer Germany to-morrow, completely conquer her, reduce her nationality to so much dust, would the ordinary British subject be the better for it?
If Germany could conquer England, would any ordinary German subject be the better for it?
The fact that all these questions have to be answered in the negative, and that a negative answer seems to outrage common sense, shows how much our political axioms are in need of revision.
The literature on the subject leaves no doubt whatever that I have