The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . ing that you cannot make people virtuousby law is a dangerous half-truth. The virtue innatein a people may be utterly destroyed by bad institu-tions, for the virtue, as Jay wrote to Washington, like the other resources of a country, can only bedrawn to a point, by strong circumstances ablymanaged, or strong governments ably Thus was a commonwealth on a scale undreamt oftiiePle °f m the philosophy of the Greeks final
The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . ing that you cannot make people virtuousby law is a dangerous half-truth. The virtue innatein a people may be utterly destroyed by bad institu-tions, for the virtue, as Jay wrote to Washington, like the other resources of a country, can only bedrawn to a point, by strong circumstances ablymanaged, or strong governments ably Thus was a commonwealth on a scale undreamt oftiiePle °f m the philosophy of the Greeks finally cementedcommon- jn tne blood of its citizens. To the old immeasurable wealth as expounded claim men more in number than the walls of Athens in his had ever contained were found to make the same Geetet°ysat unquestioning answer. At Gettysburg, with its fifty burs- thousand graves, a vast concourse of Americans was addressed by Lincoln in words which recalled the speech uttered by Pericles at the funeral of those who had given their lives for the Athenian Commonwealth in the Peloponnesian 1 See above, p. 20. PLATE XII Growth of the Commonwealth (A). REFERENCES TO PLATE XIIA = The comparative area of Attica. In the following references to numbers, the dates before 17S3are those of British Settlement or acquisition: after 1783, ofadmission to the Union. 1. Virginia (1607) 25. Arkansas . (1836) 2. Massachusetts . (1620) 26. Michigan . (1837) 3. New Hampshire . (1623) 27. Florida (1845) 4. Maryland . (1632) 28. Texas 5. Connecticut . (1633) 29. Iowa 6. Rhode Island . (1636) 30. Wisconsin (1848) 7. North Carolina. (1663) 31. California (1850) 8. New York (1664) 32. Minnesota (1858) 9. New Jersey (1664) 33. Oregon . (1859) 10. Delaware . (1664) 34. Kansas (1861) 11. South Carolina . (1670) 35. West Virginia . (1S63) 12. Pennsylvania . (1681) 36. Nevada . (1864) 13. Georgia (1733) 37. Nebraska . (1867) 14. Vermont (1791) 38. Colorado . (1876) 15. Kentucky (1792) 39. Washingto
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