Political devices, however crafty, break down whenever they are opposed to the nature of things.

I know that unity is increasing throughout the Empire not through the cunning or the statecraft of politicians, but through the whole course of events.

One part of our Imperial system becomes daily under the effect of railways, steamers, telegraphs, and the like, nearer and nearer to every other part.

The sentiment of unity which is more valuable than any law aiming at formal federation each year gains strength.

What I do fear and insist upon is the danger that a legislative dictatorship conferred on a party, and therefore necessarily taken away from the nation, should be employed in the attempt, vain though it ultimately must be, to deprive the predominant partner of a predominance requisite for the maintenance both of the United Kingdom and of the British Empire.
The four reflections at any rate which may be suggested by _A Leap in the Dark_ are well worth the consideration of the loyal citizens of the United Kingdom.
A.V.