What line does it take ?" "It says that our conquest of Britain can only result in a temporary occupation, with a 'notice to quit' always hanging over our heads; that we can never hope to assimilate the people of these islands in our Empire as a sort of maritime Saxony or Bavaria, all the teaching of history is against it; Saxony and Bavaria are part of the Empire because of their past history.

England is being bound into the Empire in spite of her past history; and so forth." "The writer of the article has not studied history very deeply," said von Kwarl.

"The impossible thing that he speaks of has been done before, and done in these very islands, too.

The Norman Conquest became an assimilation in comparatively few generations." "Ah, in those days, yes," said the banker, "but the conditions were altogether different.

There was not the rapid transmission of news and the means of keeping the public mind instructed in what was happening; in fact, one can scarcely say that the public mind was there to instruct.
There was not the same strong bond of brotherhood between men of the same nation that exists now.