. Review of reviews and world's work. nd as printed and widelydistributed, it is unquestionably having greatinfluence as a cogent and persuasive appeal to thepolitical conscience. It has always been difficult, however,A Matter ^q make these arguments—which ig- ^. of Definitions. nore time, place, and circumstance,and which consist of pure reasoning basedupon general maxims as their premises—squarewith actual history and human experience. Anespecial difficulty lies in the many meaningsthat the word -government actually example, the people of Canada are to-day byall odds a more tru
. Review of reviews and world's work. nd as printed and widelydistributed, it is unquestionably having greatinfluence as a cogent and persuasive appeal to thepolitical conscience. It has always been difficult, however,A Matter ^q make these arguments—which ig- ^. of Definitions. nore time, place, and circumstance,and which consist of pure reasoning basedupon general maxims as their premises—squarewith actual history and human experience. Anespecial difficulty lies in the many meaningsthat the word -government actually example, the people of Canada are to-day byall odds a more truly self-governing communitytlian the people of England. Yet, by a curiousparadox, the people of Canada are, in a certainsense, governed by the people of England. It isexactly in this latter sense that Mr. Bryan usesthe word government in this long speech of do not believe that when the signers of theDeclaration of Independence moralized about theright of self-government and the consent of the THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 263. Copyright, 1900, ly G. G. Bain. MR. BRYAN READING HTS NOTIFICATION SPEECH AT INDIANAPOLIS, 8. (Prominent in the group are the faces of Mr. Stevenson, candidate for the Vice-Presidency, and Senator Jones, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.) governed they ever meant to have it understoodthat any group of people whatsoever, at any time,ought to be permitted to set itself up in the fulland sovereign sense as a member of the family ofnations. It is manifestly impossible that the peo-ple of the Philippine Islands—who do not in anytrue sense constitute a nationality ; who are ofdifferent races, of different languages, and with-out true bonds of political and Social unity—should at once set up an independent republicanform of government, and take a place in thegroup of sovereign nations which have inter-course with one another through modern diplo-macy on the basis of their acceptance of a certainbody of principles and practices kn
Size: 2271px × 1101px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidreviewofrevi, bookyear1890
