The Englishman just adapts himself to the conditions, and sets to work to adapt the conditions to himself too.

He strikes a sort of mean, and the Home Government leaves him alone--leaves him too much alone some say, and rightly, in cases.

There's a distinction to be drawn, and it's difficult to draw it so far away.

It's this, when the colony's made, then it isn't a bad thing for the Government to keep a fairly tight hold on it.

But in the making it's best left to itself; you can lay a cable between London and a colony too soon for the good of that colony.