And Yet It Is, I Think, Beyond Doubt That The
French Are Not Good Colonists, As Are The Germans.
Of the ultimate destiny of New York as one of the ruling commercial
cities of the world, it is, I think, impossible to doubt.
Whether
or no it will ever equal London in population I will not pretend to
say; even should it do so, should its numbers so increase as to
enable it to say that it had done so, the question could not very
well be settled. When it comes to pass that an assemblage of men
in one so-called city have to be counted by millions, there arises
the impossibility of defining the limits of that city, and of
saying who belong to it and who do not. An arbitrary line may be
drawn, but that arbitrary line, though perhaps false when drawn as
including too much, soon becomes more false as including too
little. Ealing, Acton, Fulham, Putney, Norwood, Sydenham,
Blackheath, Woolwich, Greenwich, Stratford, Highgate, and Hampstead
are, in truth, component parts of London, and very shortly Brighton
will be as much so.
CHAPTER XV.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
As New York is the most populous State of the Union, having the
largest representation in Congress - on which account it has been
called the Empire State - I propose to state, as shortly as may be,
the nature of its separate constitution as a State. Of course it
will be understood that the constitutions of the different States
are by no means the same.
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