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Enough has been said to Show that it was not reserved 'for the statesmen of our day to comprehend the necessity of empire. Of course, it is not meant that Cecil or Cromwell foresaw and planned the structure of any Sudh empire as has arisen Since. Such an hypothesis would be absurd. But the con tention is that, just as we in our day annexed East Africa against Germany and West Africa against France, even so, with equal deliberation and for a Similar motive, did Cecil's contemporaries annex America, and Cromwell also a portion of the West Indies, against the power of Spain. It is by this series of annexations, made on this principle of self defence, that the empire has reached its present extent.
Manifesto, dated October 26, 1655. 1 Cf: Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649 vol. Iii. P. 403.
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