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Greater Greece and Greater Britain
AND
George Washington
The Expander of England

Oxford
PRINTED BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

PREFACE.

These two lectures were given quite independently,the former to the Students’ Association at Edinburghon December 22nd, 1885, and the latter asa public lecture in the University of Oxford onWashington’s birthday, February 22nd, 1886. Asthey were written for two different audiences, and asone leading idea ran through both, there was naturallya good deal of repetition, sometimes even to thevery words. This I have, in revising them for thepress, done my best to get rid of. They appear nowas two discourses, looking at the same general subjectfrom two somewhat different points of view, andeach putting different points more prominently forward.To these I have added, as an Appendix, suchparts as were not immediately temporary of anarticle which appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine forApril, 1885, under the heading of “Imperial Federation.”In this article, written only to be read andnot to be heard, some points which were treatedin a more rhetorical way in the lectures are dealtwith in a style of more minute argument. It seemedtherefore to make a fitting commentary on thelectures.

Cahors,
April 7th, 1886.

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