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Rh in the East End at an unemployed meeting. I heard inflammatory speeches: but they all echoed only one cry: "We want bread! We want bread!" I thought about this on the way home, and I became more and more convinced of the importance of imperialism. My cherished idea provides a solution for the social problem. In order to save 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must take possession of new lands for peopling by the surplus population of this country, where we shall be able to find new markets for the goods produced in our factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a question of the belly. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become an imperialist."

Thus, in 1895, spoke Cecil Rhodes, millionaire, monarch of finance, the man who was mainly responsible for the Boer War.

To tabulate as exactly as possible the territorial division of the world, and the changes which have occurred during the last ten years, let us take advantage of the data furnished by Supan in the work already quoted. Supan examines the years 1876 and 1900. We take by way of comparison, the year 1876—a year happily selected, for it is precisely at that time that the development of Western European capitalism, in its pre-monopoly stage, can be considered, generally speaking, as completed; and we take also the year 1914. We replace Supan's figures by the more recent statistics of Hübner (Geographical and Statistical Tables):

Supan studied only the colonies; we think it useful, in order to make the picture of the division of