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 I HAVE now gone through the principal points connected with Maritime Rights. I will conclude by enumerating some of the current fallacies that we constantly hear propounded on the subject. They may be termed eidola maritima and are divisible into:—

1. The eidolon vulnerable, viz., that "our area of vulnerability" is so great that we must necessarily suffer more than our enemy by maritime captures. I have, I think, dealt fully with this idol in the last chapter.