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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
Essay 9: The Expansion of England

Author: John Morley

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CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. III.

Essay 9: The Expansion of England

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904

THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND.

Politics and History 291

In relation to the eighteenth century 294

Mr. Green and his _History of the English People_ 297

The secession of the American colonies 300

The mechanical and industrial development of England 301

The Americans and Independence 303

The moral of Mr. Seeley's book 305

Organisation in time of war 306

Sir Henry Parkes on Australia 307

Mr. Archibald Forbes and the Australian colonies 313

Proposals made by the Earl of Dunraven regarding the
colonies 316

The formation of an imperial Zollverein or Greater Customs
Union 318

Sir Thomas Farrer's _Fair Trade_ v. _Free Trade_ 318

The colonies to be represented in the British Parliament 319

Lord Grey 320

Mr. W. E. Forster