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Excerpt from Her Majesty's Colonies: A Series of Original Papers Issued Under the Authority of the Royal Commission
Five-and-thirty years ago the lamented Prince Consort called into existence the first Great Exhibition, by which the industry of all nations was displayed to us in its fruits. He thus originated a method of bringing before the public attention those vast subjects, which often by their very vastness escape us, even when it is most important that we should bear them in mind. It has seemed to h.r.h. The Prince of Wales that the great Realm or Commonwealth - either word seems better than Empire - over which his mother reigns, is a subject of this kind, and that it eminently needs to be brought home to our imaginations by this method. It is vast and widely scattered; it is not identical with the English-speaking world, for it includes India, and does not include the United States the only unity it has is political. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
