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"Such a journey is a liberal education in itself, knocking the insularity out of a man if he has any receptive faculty that is and ridding him of all manner of stodgy prejudices. I don't the least undervalue my good fortune. But you talk of remembering. That's stretching a point surely. You must have been a mere baby, my dear Damaris, when you left India."
He proved the insularity of the South Land, and examined the long-neglected east coast. In. 1777, Mons. de St. Alouarn anchored near Cape Leeuwin, but no details of his visit have been preserved. In 1791, Captain George Vancouver touched on the south coast, and gave the name of King George's Sound to that well-known harbour; thence he sailed eastward.
So also another note of the day was the general patriotism, national pride, or insularity; the sentiment which made the Catholics themselves, even when they were most under suspicion and had most cause to welcome an opportunity for rebellion, ready and eager to fall into line and resist the invader who was to liberate them.
There were a great many reasons given, but I think they were all various inferences from one reason; indirect results and sometimes quite illogical results, of what we have called the Germanisation of England. First, the very insularity on which we insisted was barbaric, in its refusal of a seat in the central senate of the nations.
It would undoubtedly have shared the full progress of western Europe from this time on, but for its insularity. Hitherto its protection, it was now to be its downfall. A hostile power was growing of which it knew nothing. The Norsemen the hardy vikings of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark had become a nation of pirates.
This act had a significance beyond the fact that it established in the United States of America a flourishing church, which, while completely loyal to its own country, is bound by special ties to the religious life of England. It marked the emergence of the Church of England from that insularity to which what may be called the territorial principles of the Reformation had condemned her.
Large, stern and florid, he was always the same in manner whether serving behind his counter or taking up the money on Sundays: shining example of intelligence, thrift, and British insularity, such a man as Clarence Enderby carries the love of British institutions all over the globe, and one forgives his syntax for the sake of his sincerity.
Escott has an instructive chapter on this in his excellent book on England. He notices that the English character is losing its insularity, is more accessible to foreign influences, and is adopting foreign, especially French, modes of living.
And this is the cultivation of our so to speak foreign memory. We cannot afford to pamper our insularity. It is true it must exist, but it is equally true that English interests can never be at least, ought never to be the sum total of our mental investments. Patriotism is a fine thing. It is an eminently inspiring thing.
One power in our day challenged Britain's control of the sea now even more essential to her security than it was in the 17th century to that of Holland and the World War was the consequence. In all this story it is interesting to note that insularity in position is the reverse of insularity in fact.
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