What is desirable in this federation to preserve ourselves from the menace of other civilizations? How shall we balance our powers to ensure freedom to the individual and freedom to local groups to follow their individual yearnings with safety to them and to us all? How shall we bind ourselves for that all-time, the indefinite future, so that we shall be gladly bound, and yet be freemen still? "If, . . . in the famous words of Lincoln, we as a body in our minds and hearts 'highly resolve' to work for the general recognition: by society of the binding character of international duties and rights as they arise within the Anglo-Saxon group, we shall not resolve in vain. A mere common desire may seem an intangible instrument, and yet, intangible as it is, it may be enough to form the beginning of what in the end can make the whole difference."[226-2] [207-1] A. L. Burt, _Imperial Architects_, Oxford, 1913, p. 86. [209-1] A. L. Burt, _Imperial Architects_, Oxford, 1913, p. 125. [210-1] Richard Jebb, _Colonial Nationalism_, London, 1905, p. 336: "The imperial city shall lose her pride of place. In another seagirt isle, by the margin of the Pacific. . . . sleeps a fair city." According to Mrs. Henshaw, F.R.G.S., in _United Empire_, London, January 1914, p. 80, Vancouver Island was named by Sir Francis Drake, 1579, New Albion. [210-2] A _résumé_ of projects for Britannic federation is given in A. L. Burt, _Imperial Architects_, Oxford, 1913, pp. 152-195; the necessity of, and possible transitional stages on the way towards, federation are discussed, _ibid._, pp. 196-225. [210-3] Richard Jebb, _Studies in Colonial Nationalism_, London, 1905; and _The Britannic Question_, London, 1913. [210-4] A.L. Burt, _Imperial Architects_, Oxford, 1913, p. 147. [211-1] _Ibid_., Introduction by H. E. Egerton, p. vi. [212-1] Arthur Murphy, _The Works of Cornelius Tacitus_, London, 1793, vol. iv. p. 17. [213-1] H. E. Egerton, _Federations and Union within the British Empire_, Oxford, 1911, p. 183. [213-2] W. B. Worsfold, _The Union of South Africa_, London, 1912, p. 104. [213-3] _Ency. Brit._, vol. xxv. p. 475. [214-1] _A Review of the Present Mutual Relations of the British South African Colonies, to which is appended a Memorandum on South African Railway Unification_, "Printed by Authority" [Johannesburg, 1907], p. 5. [215-1] Quoted in Woodrow Wilson, _Mere Literature_, Boston, 1900, p. 149. [215-2] Cf. _ante_, p. 121. [216-1] The growth of inter-cantonal arbitration in Switzerland, leading to present federal court, is alluded to in Woodrow Wilson, _The State_, 1898, rev. ed., Boston, 1911, p. 328. [216-2] _Ency. Brit._, vol. xxvii. p. 685. [216-3] _Ibid._, vol. xxv. p. 482. [216-4] _Britannica Year Book_, London, 1913, p. 664. [217-1] _The Times_ Weekly Edition, London, January 9, 1914.