Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/greatergreecegre00freeuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Some characters (especially Greek letters) might not display properly, in which case the reader should consult the original pages at Internet Archice (see above). CONTENTS PAGE Greater Greece and Greater Britain 1 George Washington, the Expander of Britain 66 Appendix 104 GREATER GREECE AND GREATER BRITAIN AND GEORGE WASHINGTON THE EXPANDER OF ENGLAND Two Lectures With an Appendix by EDWARD A. FREEMAN, D.C.L., LL.D. Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford London Macmillan and Co. 1886 [All rights reserved] [Illustration] Oxford Printed by Horace Hart, Printer to the University PREFACE. These two lectures were given quite independently, the former to the Students’ Association at Edinburgh on December 22nd, 1885, and the latter as a public lecture in the University of Oxford on Washington’s birthday, February 22nd, 1886. As they were written for two different audiences, and as one leading idea ran through both, there was naturally a good deal of repetition, sometimes even to the very words. This I have, in revising them for the press, done my best to get rid of. They appear now as two discourses, looking at the same general subject from two somewhat different points of view, and each putting different points more prominently forward. To these I have added, as an Appendix, such parts as were not immediately temporary of an article which appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine for April, 1885, under the heading of “Imperial Federation.” In this article, written only to be read and not to be heard, some points which were treated in a more rhetorical way in the lectures are dealt with in a style of more minute argument. It seemed therefore to make a fitting commentary on the lectures. CAHORS, _April 7th, 1886_. GREATER GREECE AND GREATER BRITAIN.