Chapter VI · COLONIES—EMPIRE—FOREIGN POLICY (continued 2)
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It is not a little remarkable that this farewell re-echoes the sentence quoted in my first chapter from his tract What is he? as well as that later Runnymede Letter which, forty years earlier, he addressed to Sir Robert Peel.134
“... Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire; that where Britain’s power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.”