Here I have but to say that, as a temporary expedient for overcoming at that time the initial difficulties of a colony, it ought not to be hastily condemned.

It has long ago been abandoned after working both good and evil, and in the same way the schemes of Church Settlement Wakefield made use of are now but interesting chapters of colonial history.

But we must not forget that these things were but some of the dreams of Gibbon Wakefield.

At the most he regarded them as means to an end.

His great dream of lifting colonization out of disrepute, and of founding colonies which should be daughter-states worthy of their great mother, has been no false or fleeting vision.
That dream, at any rate, came to him through the Gate of Horn and not through the Ivory Gate.
By Wakefield it was that the Colonial Office was forced to annex New Zealand.