Excerpt from Canada and the Empire OF the many interesting political and economic questions which have come to the front in the Opening years Of the twentieth century, one of the most fascinating is the future of Canada. It has captured the imagination Of mankind and aroused world-wide attention. It is not only of command ing interest in itself, but there is involved in it a much larger and more important question - the future of the British Empire. In the present eventful generation the whole range Of the civilised world has been undergoing profound changes, some caused by wars, some by peaceful revolu tions, but most of them by new developments of commerce and industry. NO nation or country has altogether escaped, and where on the surface they make the smallest Show they may underneath be the most active and disintegrating. A2 T he British E mpire in Transition. Great Britain, the head and heart of a mighty Empire once so stable and firm-rooted, is now plunging deeper and deeper in a vortex of new and strange movements. It is undergoing the most revolutionary changes in its long and eventful history - changes all the more dangerous for being little understood. They are least Of all understood by those who must bear the risk of them. Our Constitutional crises, our naval scares, and our electioneering contests are but the outward symptoms of profound organic unrest. The whole basis and groundwork Of the Empire are under going a Silent transformation. Its centre Of gravity is shifting and may not remain much longer within these Islands. Already London is in a much smaller degree the capital of the British Empire than it was in the infancy Of the colonies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.