. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . and in liberal legislationand economic progress, but the millstone ofaggregated wealth and vested interests weighed her down, and she retired from theleadership, while Australasia, with her novelsurroundings and the experience of all theformer ages to contemplate, proposed to saila little further over the inviting seas of socialprogress, and her success had vindicated thewisdom of her determination. At a timewhen many other nations were almost madlypushing colonial experiments, she had writtena new volume corroborating the evidence of thecenturies, that Britain a
. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . and in liberal legislationand economic progress, but the millstone ofaggregated wealth and vested interests weighed her down, and she retired from theleadership, while Australasia, with her novelsurroundings and the experience of all theformer ages to contemplate, proposed to saila little further over the inviting seas of socialprogress, and her success had vindicated thewisdom of her determination. At a timewhen many other nations were almost madlypushing colonial experiments, she had writtena new volume corroborating the evidence of thecenturies, that Britain alone, of all modernnations, possessed the requisite qualities forsuccessful colonisation. Australasia deserves well of the world,said Oseba, for under the separate standardsof her many colonial chiefs, she lias moved thepeople on to a most advanced position. But in Australia proper there has recentlycome a change that must necessarily checkthe rapidity of Australian progress. Six ofthe Australasian colonies — New Zealand not. ilppip tDe Brakes. los joining—have left the skirmish-Hne, and formedinto a less mobile mass. The light infantryhave buckled on heavy knapsacks—the flyingartillery have been re-cast into siege states are now anchored to thepast, and the Commonwealth must beunwieldy. The members of this compact maychafe, but the chains are unyielding, and theponderous hulk, in which all the luggage hasbeen tossed, will be found cumbrously slowin its movements. As social groups, the Australians, in their free colonies, were in their vigorous youth—they were buoyant and ambitious. They lookedabroad, beheld what others had done, and said, * Let us take another step, and being free andself-ruling, they were able to hurriedly adjusttheir political machine to their local require-ments. Inspired by novel environments, great op-portunities and hard necessities, the Phoeniciansand the Greeks, as colonisers, gave to Europeits commercial instincts ; and, inspired by l
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