[11] Green's History of the English People, vol. i., p. 91.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Reeves's History of the English Law, by Finlason, p. 230. Green's English People, vol. i., p. 116.
[14] Green's English People, vol. i., p. 244,
[15] Hume's History of England, vol. i., pp. 549-550.
[16] Freeman's History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy, 2nd Edition, p. 249.
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CHAPTER V
THE SELFISH CAUSES WHICH PROVOKE AND SUPPORT AN ALLIANCE, EXAMINED
I NOW pass into another sphere of thought not less important than the one I have just left, but where the motives found are of a purely selfish and practical nature. It is said that the foundation of all human action is either sympathy or selfishness.[1] I have appealed to the first, I now invoke the common interests of the two nations—a selfish motive, but one of inestimable importance in the study of the question of an Anglo-Saxon union.