A mere leader, however great, whether priest, poet, or politician, represents his own type, his own class, or his own party. Homage to him can seldom, if ever, be unanimous; it is ever on the brink of degenerating into party-spirit and sectarianism. A Sovereign represents the strong and the weak, the great and the insignificant, the man with one talent and the man with seven, the traditions of the past and the ideas of the present. A Sovereign is the only possible representative of the _whole_ nation. I may be wrong, but I think that the Australians, consciously or unconsciously, found this to be true. LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET FOOTNOTES [1] Carlyle’s _Frederick the Great_. [2] This excludes 7 members returned without a contest, and makes a total of 56 Ministerialists and 21 Opposition members, the 78th being (I presume) the Speaker and reckoned neutral. The figures are from the Melbourne _Argus_, February 1868. [3] See _Prophets and Kings_, p. 11. By the Rev. F. D. Maurice. [4] See a remarkable pamphlet called _The Mercantile Commander, his Difficulties and Grievances_. Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street. [5] _Our Daily Food._ By James Caird. [6] As an instance of this it may be mentioned that cheese, which in March 1868 was selling at fourteenpence a pound, was in December of the same year selling at fivepence halfpenny. [7] _Colonial Policy of Lord J. Russell_, vol. ii. p. 4.