...as one of provisional pupilage, out of which the Colony must pass before it could attain maturity. " You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies...and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free men have a right to aspire." But perfect development surely, in the case...

...Elgin felt himself obliged to give a liberal Minister in England his views in the following terms : " You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies...and of social and political development, to which organized communities have a right to aspire. . . . There is nothing which makes the colonial statesman...

...speech which kindled Elgin into a passion, and made him bid Grey renounce for himself and his leader the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. The same speech, too, extorted complaints from Robert Baldwin, the man whom Sydenham and Russell had...

...existence. You must allow them 1 Pamphlet by (?) Wakefield, A View of Sir C. Metcalffs Government, 1844. to believe that, without severing the bonds, which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain a degree of perfection and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free...

...business, as the missioner of the Greater England idea. " You must renounce the habit,"6 he declared, "of telling the Colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence. You must allow them 1 Pamphlet by (?) Wakefield, A View of Sir C. Metcalfe' s Government, 1844. 2 Afterwards Lord Metcalfe....

...federal organism, existing permanently and for beneficent objects, in a letter in which he declared: You must renounce the habit of telling the Colonies...which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain a degree of perfection and of social and political development, to which organized communities of free...

...however, indispensable," he wrote, " to the success of this or any other system of Colonial government, you must renounce the habit of telling the colonies...perfection and of social and political development to which organized communities of free men have a right to aspire." While endeavoring to make Canada a truly...

...modern student, but, on the whole, they would have subscribed cordially to the words of Lord Elgin, " You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies...which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain a degree of perfection and of social and political development to which organised communities of free...

...modern student, but, on the whole, they would have subscribed cordially to the words of Lord Elgin, " You must renounce the habit of telling the colonies...which unite them to Great Britain, they may attain a degree of perfection and of social and political development to which organised communities of free...

...conditions, if the Canadian or any other system of government was to be successful, British statesmen must "renounce the habit of telling the colonies that the colonial is a provisional existence." They should be taught to believe that "without severing the bonds which unite them to England, they...