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92 the world more complete, to add summarised information on the non-colonial and semi-colonial countries, such as Persia, China and Turkey. Persia is already almost completely a colony; China and Turkey are on the way to becoming colonies. We obtain the following results:

We see from these figures how complete was the partition of the world at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. After 1876 colonial possessions are extended to an enormous degree, growing from 40 to 65 million square kilometres in area. For the six biggest powers the increase is one of 25 million square kilometres, that is, one and a half times greater than the area of the "Home" countries, 16½ million.

In 1876 three powers had no colonies, and a fourth, France, had scarcely any. In 1914, these four powers had 14.1 million square kilometres of colonies, or an area one and a half times greater than that of Europe, peopled with nearly 100,000,000 human beings.

The unequal rates of development in acquiring