Later on the doctor had to fill in the usual certificate.

At "Cause of Death" he paused, pondered, and at last wrote, "Causes too numerous to specify." The fable possesses a certain suggestive value upon which we need not enlarge.

How, one may well ask, are we to itemise the retail iniquities of a system of government which is itself a wholesale iniquity?
But since we must begin somewhere let us begin with the Economics of Unionism.
In this often-written, and perhaps over-written story there is one feature of some little comfort.

Whatever quarrel there may be as to causes, the facts are not disputed.

Pitt and his friends promised that the Union would be followed by general prosperity, development of manufacturers, and expansion of commerce.
"Among the great and known defects of Ireland," he declared in a typical statement, "one of the most prominent features is its want of industry and of capital.