The moral which he drew from his travels in Australasia, and in the West Indies, was the need for strengthening imperial ties.

Lord Beaconsfield's Imperialism was not to his taste, and he disliked every form of aggression or pretence.

While he dreaded the intervention of party leaders, and desired the Colonies to take the initiative themselves, he thought that a common tariff was the direction in which true Imperialism should move.

Whether he was right or wrong is too large a question to be discussed here.

That matter must make its own proof.