Let the "Cambridge Modern History" tell the tale of before and after Home Rule in the Dominion: "Provincial jealousies have dwindled to vanishing point; racial antipathies no longer imperil the prosperity of the Dominion; religious animosities have lost their mischievous power in a new atmosphere of common justice and toleration.

Canada, as the direct outcome of Confederation, has grown strong, prosperous, energetic.
The unhappy divisions which prevailed at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and which darkened with actual revolt and bloodshed the dawn of the Victorian era, are now only a memory.

The links which bind the Dominion to Great Britain may on paper seem slight, but they are resistless.

Imperial Federation has still great tasks to accomplish within our widely scattered Imperial domains, but its success in Canada may be accepted as the pledge of its triumph elsewhere.

Canada is a nation within the Empire, and in Kipling's phrase is 'daughter in her mother's house and mistress in her own.'" This is the authentic harvest of freedom.
The "unity" of the old regime which, in a Bismarckian phrase, was like paper pasted over ever-widening cracks, was abandoned.