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The Self-governing Colonies and their History
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The Self-governing Colonies and their History
We turn from India, the scene of one of the most benevolent and efficient despotisms in the world's history, to a unique product of the British Empire—the Self-Governing Colony The problem that Great Britain had to solve in the of self-nineteenth century was a difficult one. How was a colony "to be a daughter in her mother's house and be a mistress in her own"? How was Great Britain to give to her colonies the control over their own affairs, and yet preserve any connection with them? To British statesmen, both Whigs and Tories, these two objects for long appeared, in the words of the Duke of Wellington, "completely incompatible". In Canada, however, a solution was at last achieved, and we must now trace briefly how this was accomplished.
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