As for levying war on Great Britain, we have no inclination in that direction.

The best thought in Ireland has always preferred civilisation to war, and we have no wealth to waste on expensive stupidities of any kind.

In addition we are handicapped on sea by the smallness of our official navy which, so far as I can gather, consists of the _Granuaile_, a pleasure-boat owned by the Congested Districts Board.

In land operations, we are still more seriously hampered by the non-existence of our army.

And although, in point of population, our numerical inferiority is so trivial as one to ten, even this slight disproportion may be regarded by an Irish Parliament as a fact not unworthy of consideration.
But we must not suffer ourselves to be detained any longer among these unrealities.