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he forgets that in reality this all has sprung from the heads of European immigrants. And
not just Englishmen, but above all Germans, particularly those strong minds that emigrated around 1848. The arrogance of the Americanised Englishman really comes through in this book. He says, for example [translated from diarist’s German translation]:
From a trade perspective it’s not necessary to have colonies and dominions. The
reason Britain rightly protects her colonies is the happiness and pride of a mother towards her children. Britain is the most kindly of mothers and greatly deserves the love of her children.
England doesn’t for a minute have love on her mind when she acquires and protects her colonies; she does it purely in order to secure a market for her industries. Once she fences in her markets with standardised tariffs, the world’s major industrial