To [be civilized] a people would have to live under institutions in which power and freedom were equally mingled, and material development and moral progress co-ordinated in one particular way.

Government and religion would have strict limits drawn round them [and] the subjects would necessarily possess rights of a very definite kind...I should be driven to consider only one nation, of all that have ever lived, as truly civilized—namely, the English.

Great Britain and her colonies should present a united political front to the world. ... Common interests so vast no nation or union of nations has ever before had in the history of the world. ... Transferred to Canada, or Australia, New Zealand, the Cape. . .

In the strength of the British flag to give security to the infinite army of workers who carry on their toil under its protection, is involved the welfare and prosperity of the greatest aggregation of human beings that ever was. . .