Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 224: July, 1916-October, 1916; To Be Continued Quarterly
All such predictions have been triumphantly falsified. The Dominions, and the Dependencies as well, have made England's quarrel their own. The world has seen that the British Empire, through all its square miles of territory and its of people, is one against the world. Its populations are not all British: most of them are not British at all; some have small knowledge of the faith, the speech, and the institutions of the Mother Country but they stand together not so much for an empire as for an ideal, the ideal of freedom, justice, and right living. They know that the victory of the Central European Powers would mean the loss of those ideals, and they think it worth while to risk everything in order to avert that disaster.
But the war, as Sir Robert Borden says, will leave the Empire greater than it was and also different. It is impossible to believe that the present Imperial constitution can remain unchanged after the strain to which it has been exposed.
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