I see a vision of a nation, the colony of the greatest race on the earth, who began their career with more advantages than ever fell to the lot of a … - Henry Kingsley

"I see," began the Major, "the Anglo-Saxon race—"
"Don't forget the Irish, Jews, Germans, Chinese, and other barbarians," interrupted the Doctor.
"Asserting," continued the Major, scornfully, "as they always do, their right to all the unoccupied territories of the earth."
("Blackfellow's claims being ignored," interpolated the Doctor.)

A new heaven and a new earth! Tier beyond tier, height above height, the great wooded ranges go rolling away westward, till on the lofty sky-line they are crowned with a gleam of everlasting snow. To the eastward they sink down, breaking into isolated forests, fringed peaks, and rock-crowned eminences, till with rapidly straightening lines they disappear gradually into broad grey plains, beyond which the Southern Ocean is visible by the white reflection cast upon the sky.

They have found gold here, and gold in abundance, and hither have come, by ship and steamship, all the unfortunate of the earth. The English factory labourer and the farmer-ridden peasant; the Irish pauper; the starved Scotch Highlander. I hear a grand swelling chorus rising above the murmur of the evening breeze; that is sung by German peasants revelling in such plenty as they never knew before, yet still regretting fatherland, and then I hear a burst of Italian melody replying. Hungarians are not wanting, for all the oppressed of the earth have taken refuge here, glorying to live under the free government of Britain; for she, warned by American experience, has granted to all her colonies such rights as the British boast of possessing.