Excerpt from The Broad Stone of Empire, Vol. 1: Problems of Crown Colony Administration, With Records of Personal ExperienceThe exigencies of the occasion did not allow me to do more than indicate the nature of these pro blems, but in the years that have since elapsed, in my endeavour to bring home to my countrymen, and especially to the industrial classes, the importance of their interest in the Crown colonies, I have dealt with them in detail, by such methods as I have found available: by lectures and addresses to learned societies, schools of tropical medicine, working men's colleges, settlements, and literary associations, as well as by many contributions to reviews, perio dicals and the daily press. Some time ago it was suggested to me that I might co-ordinate and expand my scattered contributions to a knowledge of the subject, and place the results of my experience on permanent record.This is the origin of my present work and I am encouraged to hope that it may be found Justified by a growing appreciation of the value of our Crown colonies, and an increasing interest in the methods by which they are governed and economically de veloped. The causes of this growing interest are not far to seek. In the first place, the foundation of the Union of South Africa has finally removed the whole group of self-governing colonies or Dominions from the area of exercise of the func tions of administration by the Government of the United Kingdom. The problems of administration which I have enumerated are, as I shall endeavour in the course of my work to make clear, common to every unit of the Empire, but the Government of the United Kingdom has no more power to deal with them in the Dominions than it has in foreign countries. I yield to no one in my admiration of the splendour and strength accruing to the Empire from the loyalty of the Dominions, but we are bound in the common interests of the Empire to recognise the interpretation they frankly and proudly place on the term.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.