Forty years before John Richard Green thus explained why he had abandoned the plan of the graveyard, Victor Hugo lashed the front of England with this very thong.

"Ireland turned into a cemetery; Poland transported to Siberia; all Italy a galleys--there is where we stand in this month of November, 1831!" The history of Ireland remains to be written, because the purpose of Ireland remains yet to be achieved.

The widow of John Richard Green has laid the foundations of that temple of hope in which the youth of Ireland must enter and be sworn to the task that yet remains for Irishmen to accomplish.
And so in closing the days of 1913 I bring, with a message of hope, these scattered thoughts upon the British Empire and its approaching dissolution to lay before the youth of Ireland.

I say approaching dissolution advisedly, for the signs are there to be read.

"Home Rule" will not save it.