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Excerpt from Address Delivered by Mr. Philip Kerr at the Toronto Club, to the Members of the Round Table Society: Tuesday, July 30th, 1912
I haie given you the reasons why I am an Imperialist. You may not agree with them, but I would, in conclusion, earnestly ask you to consider what the alternative to the Imperialist programme means. I say to you deliberately that I am convinced that the future of the Empire rests with the Dominions. The United King dom alone cannot long continue to sustain so great a fabric. Therefore, gentlemen, before you reject Imperialism, think well what your act implies. It implies far more than your severance from us at home. It implies the eventual disappearance of the Imperial system which has nurtured you into being; the creation of five new nations independent one of another and possessed of no better method of settling their disputes than war; the rise of the dependencies - of India, Egypt and the rest - into hostile powers, certainly hostile to you and us and certainly allied with our foes. It implies a new lease of life for armaments and war - a new blaze in the ancient feud between East and West, and above all the deliberate rejection and destruction of the possibility of bringing to fruition perhaps the greatest political vision which has yet dawned upon mankind.
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