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162 outside Europe, all capable of providing homes for European emigrants flying from the burdens of militarism, and the constant anxieties of war. These are the United States, Canada, Australasia, and South Africa. Besides these communities, there are the South American States, of which it is perhaps not too much to say that, whereas the original colonists merely pitched camps and called them republics, now, with the ceaseless and immense influx of British capital and British energy, they have been rendered suitable homes for the Germanic and Latin stocks.

Therefore, European statesmen see a new world rising rapidly yonder, alienated from themselves, in touch with us, destined to be the rival of Europe, and growing the faster as they indulge in their time-honoured Kriegspiel. Meanwhile, their best and bravest, their invaluable citizens, will take wing across the ocean to better continents, while the weakling and the pauper will stay behind. Thus an ever-ascending scale of impositions will fall upon peoples ever less disposed to bear them. "The burden of armaments," said our Foreign minister in March 1911, "will be dissipated by internal revolution, by the revolt of masses of men against taxation." So one day, when some galloping imperial Rupert has finished charging, he will wheel right about, only to find his camp in the hands of his own socialists. Such thoughts give pause.

There is a second course adopted by England,