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Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Toronto: Season 1903-1904
Economically Britain was not so much in advance of other nations as she might appear to be. Notwithstanding her great success in business, trade was not her strongest point. The British had not trained themselves for business so accurately as many other nations, for example, Germany and the United States. Their superiority was on a higher plane, and their very success in trade and industry was but an incident of their larger view of life. It was exemplified in their great men, and his best hope for the Canadian people was that they should study and follow the models afforded by renowned English statesmen.
Coming directly to Mr. Chamberlain's ideas, it was very difficult to say just what they were. He 'had followed his various utterances, as reported in the London Times, and had found that they changed from week to week. It was characteristic of Mr. Chamberlain that he is a difficult man to nail down to details. Mr. Shortt said he was not criticizing Mr. Chamberlain's policy from an insular point of view, but from the Imperial standpoint he believed that it was open to much criticism. He could not agree with many who seem ed to think that to put one's self in touch with Mr. Chamberlain was to put one's self in touch with the core of the Empire, and with its best thought.
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