Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![superior grit, and it was a duty to spread the Empire and bring the gospel of liberty22 to other nations. We did this by our Plantations and Provinces, in the way now known as “peaceful penetration”. In the “Provinces” of our Common¬ wealth the balance is not the same as in our Commonwealth itself. If the richest there were to have power according to their riches, the provinces would be no longer provinces but independent. One country dominates another not by the balance of land, which is an internal affair, but because its army is stronger, or it may have natural advantages of situation as the Danes have, in the control of the Sound. “For the colonies in the Indies, they are as yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother cities, but such as I mistake if [he means : I doubt whether] when they come of age they do not wean themselves, which causeth me to wonder at Princes that delight to be exhausted that wav.” Hobbes23 had spoken decidedly to the same effect; among the infirmities of a commonwealth is “the insatiable appetite, or jSouAi/u'a, of enlarging dominion with the incurable wounds thereby many times received from the enemy, and the 'wens’ of ununited conquests, which are many times a burthen, and with less danger lost than kept”. He may have been thinking of Calais and Dunkirk, which were hardly colonies. Harrington more minutely compares the economic relation of colonies and mother country to city and country.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
