Lectures on Colonization and Colonies: Delivered Before the University of Oxford, 1839, 1840,& 1841 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Lectures on Colonization and Colonies: Delivered Before the University of Oxford, 1839, 1840,& 1841

Great part of these Lectures was devoted to the ex position and illustration of the views of the school in question; another portion, to controverting some errors which appeared to me involved in them. Much was also allotted to the discussions of the then pending conflict between protection and free trade. The interest of both controversies has for the present subsided. Yet I have thought on the whole that I might serve my readers better by retaining a large proportion of the original text of this work, than by rewriting it for adaptation to the present time; for the Lectures as originally delivered show the point which speculation on subjects of colonial policy had reached, at an epoch of no common im portance in its history. But I have omitted from the present edition many details of merely temporary in terest. And I have endeavoured to import into the volume, through considerable additions in the way of notes and appendix, such corrections as the enlarged experience of the last twenty years appeared to render necessarv.

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Excerpt from Lectures on Colonization and Colonies: Delivered Before the University of Oxford, 1839, 1840,& 1841

These Lectures were composed and originally published at a time when public attention had been rather suddenly and strongly directed to the subjects which they embrace. During the continental war, and for many subsequent years, our colonial empire had been administered after no very regular pattern, but in accordance with certain received usages. While most of our colonies had free legislatures, their executive government was jealously retained within the control of the mother country. Their trade was fettered by the highly artificial restrictions of the so-called colonial system. Slavery, though assailed with great pertinacity, was maintained in a large proportion of them; together with the peculiar condition of political society which it engendered. The penal colonies - the most remarkable modern accessions to that empire - were regarded as mere conveniences for the execution of justice at home, and excited no farther interest in the minds of statesmen.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.