The Imperialist out to "civilise the barbarians" is, of course, shocked by such wickedness; but we are beginning to open our eyes to the wickedness and hypocrisy of both.

To us this book reads as if a shrewd observer of the English Occupation in Ireland had noted the attending features and based these principles thereon.

We have reason to be grateful to Machiavelli for his exposition.

His advice to the prince, in effect, lays bare the marauders of his age and helps us to expose the Empire in our own.
III There is a lesson to be learnt from the fact that this book of Machiavelli's, written four centuries ago in Italy, is so apt here to-day.

We must take this exposition as the creed of Empire and have no truck with the Empire.