In the narrower but even more significant sphere of British colonial policy the passion for centralisation had not yet been understood in all its folly.

Downing Street still functioned as the Dublin Castle of the Empire.

The possibility of the overseas possessions developing that rich, strong individuality which characterises them to-day would have been dismissed with horror.

The colour and texture of men's thought on these subjects has undergone a notable transformation.

Cosmopolitanism of the old type is a slain hallucination.