F. D. ALA_URICE ON THE BREAKING DOWN OF NATIONAL BOUNDARIES.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SpEct1Tort."] SIR,—The following quotation from a letter of the Rev. F. D. Maurice (Life, VoL IL, p. 251) to the Rev. Charles Kingsley may be of interest to your readers:— " Jan. 3, '55.
I do not the least enter into the Kossuth notion about our duty to the 'Nationalities ' ; if there is any good in them, if they are nations, and not nationalities, they will help themselves. Our business, so far as I can gather from history, has never been to make a crusade for them, but to resist whatever power in Spain, France, Russia, set itself up to break down national boundaries and establish a universal Empire. It has been no choice with us, whether we would do this or not; we have been forced to do it, when we were most reasonably and remarkably reluctant. God has sent us upon the errand, if we were ever so inclined to escape in a ship of Tarshish and look after our commercial prosperity."
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