Note 739 — Chapter XII · THE THEORY OF EMPIRE

Osgood, American Colonies, vol. III, pp. 4 f.; “The English colonies, however, were not sister communities of England, but dependent local jurisdictions for whose welfare and safety the mother-country had assumed the responsibility.” Beer, Origins, p. 301. For discussion of the element of distance, cf. Lucas, Greater Rome and Greater Britain, pp. 32 ff.