Excerpt from Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia: The Right of the Colonies, and the Interest of Britain and of the World Great Britain has hitherto been all wrong in her principles and practice in the matter of colonization, and that, in common with the colonies themselves, she has been reaping the bitter fruits of this fatal mistake for two centuries and a half. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.