CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION. Page

Patriotism. An Essay by Herbert Spencer 1

CHAPTER I.

Of the Policy of English Wars     6

1. The War with Spain in the Seventeenth Century

(from Seeley, The Expansion of England)     6

2. England’s Struggle with Holland in the Seventeenth

Century (from Seeley, The Expansion of England) 11

3. The War of the Spanish Succession; its Commercial

Character (from Seeley, The Expansion of England

and The Growth of British Policy)     17

4. The Rohilla War (from Macaulay, Warren Hastings) 22

5. The Opium War (from Mc Carthy, A History of

Our Own Times)     29

6. The Boer War (from M. H. Ferrars, Greater Britain) 41

CHAPTER II.

Of England’s Policy towards her Dependencies     45

1. Crimes against Ireland (from Lecky, A History of

England in the Eighteenth Century)     45

2. Ireland from the Surrender of Limerick to the End of

the 18th Century (from Green, A Short History of

the English People)     64

3. A Short View of the State of Ireland (by Jonathan
      Swift)     68

4. Observations on the Policy of the War with America

(from Richard Price, Essay on Liberty)     78

5. English Abuses of the Rights of War in the American

War of Independence (from G. O. Trevelyan,

The American Revolution)     85

CHAPTER III.

Of English Policy as regarding the Rights of Man     95

1. England’s Share in the Slave-Trade (from Lecky,

A History of England in the Eighteenth Century)     95

2. English Atrocities in Jamaica (from Mc Carthy,

A History of Our Own Times)     104