tions. Believing that the Saxon race are the Ten Lost Tribes, it
then follows that the English nation is the chief representative of these
Tribes, and that they should be in possession of the gates of their
enemies. Are they? We answer, yes. And every year confirms and makes
more clear the answer. This you say is a theory. Grant it. You know
that in science a theory is formed and then applied. If you form a
theory about the tides or formation of the planets, or this world, your
theory with others is applied to known facts to see if it will fit them,
to see if it will account for them, and to see if it is in harmony with
the same. Now science accepts that theory which applies best, that which
accounts for facts the most reasonably, and harmonises the most
naturally. Such theory is then the science of the day, and will be so
accepted and so taught until it is supplanted by a better. Try, then,
the theory I have advanced by these rules.

Take the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel, between
England and France, nearer to the French shore than England; the
inhabitants, being a majority of them French, speaking French. Yet when
France was England's greatest and most dangerous enemy, England held
then, as now, the gates of her enemies. Properly speaking, and adjudged
by any human rule, they belong to France--as naturally as the island of
Heligoland, at the month of the Elbe, belongs to Germany. Gibraltar,
Malta, Cyprus, Suez Canal, Island of Perim in the Straits of Babelmandeb
in the Red Sea, and Socotra, in the same sea; also Aden in the Red Sea,
covering Arabia; Peshawur, the very entrance of or from India into
Afghanistan. In and around the vast empire of India you have Bombay,
Calcutta, Madras, with many similar strongholds; Rangoon, on the Irawady
river, commanding and even menacing Burmah. The vast empire of China is
carefully guarded and held in check by such gates as Singapore, Malacca,
Penang, Hong Kong and Cowloon. Sarawak in Borneo, and Labuan off the
coasts, are such gates. Africa is being gradually gobbled up; her
strongholds and vast areas of country are falling into the hands of
England; the coasts are fast coming under British rule. Recently England
has come into possession of three gates--namely, the island of Socotra,
near the Red Sea, the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean, and the
Sublime Porte, the lofty gateway, Constantinople. And it is now rumoured
that England is