His Views and Principles
the persistent building of vast ships armed with guns of great power? The other day I was walking down a neighbouring street when my attention was arrested by shrill screams from over the way. I crossed over, and was shocked to find that my little Helen, aged seven, had succeeded in evading domestic supervision, and was endeavouring to wrest a small doll from a child of much tenderer years. I administered suitable castigation to my erring child there and then, and on her return to our roof she received a chapter from the Book of Kings to learn by heart. This course of action I considered, and consider still, to have been dictated by true regard for the welfare of my offspring; and yet—look at the map of the British Empire, like a great stain of blood upon the fair face of the world! I corrected my child for the attempted theft of a paltry doll; shall we not also correct our vagrant children who have stolen, not a child's toy, but whole continents? From the Maori and the Blackfellow, from the African Negro and the myriad
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