"You seemed to think the advantage of imperialism was all with England.

You mustn't press that view on us, you know.

We shall get harder to bargain with.

Besides, from the point of your sermon, it's all the other way." "Oh, I don't agree! The younger nations can work out their own salvation unaided; but can England alone?
Isn't she too heavily weighted ?" "Oh, materially, very likely! But morally, no," said Lorne, stoutly.
"There, if you like, she has accumulations that won't depreciate.

Money isn't the only capital the colonies offer investment for." "I'm afraid I see it in the shadow of the degeneration of age and poverty," said Finlay, smiling--"or age and wealth, if you prefer it." "And we in the disadvantage of youth and easy success," Lorne retorted.
"We're all very well, but we're not the men our fathers were: we need a lot of licking into shape.