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So long as the oceans are the ligaments which bind together the great
broad-cast British Empire, so long will there be a dash of romance in
our minds. For the soul is swayed by the waters, as the waters are
by the moon, and when the great highways of an empire are along such
roads as these, so full of strange sights and sounds, with danger ever
running like a hedge on either side of the course, it is a dull mind
indeed which does not bear away with it some trace of such a passage.
And now, Britain lies far beyond herself, for the three-mile limit of
every seaboard is her frontier, which has been won by hammer and loom
and pick rather than by arts of war. For it is written in history that
neither king nor army can bar the path to the man who having twopence in
his strong box, and knowing well where he can turn it to threepence,
sets his mind to that one end. And as the frontier has broadened, the
mind of Britain has broadened too, spreading out until all men can see
that the ways of the island are continental, even as those of the
Continent are insular.
But for this a price must be paid, and the price is a grievous one.
As the beast of old must have one young human life as a trib
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