"ENGLAND" AND "BRITAIN."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 8

"ENGLAND" AND "BRITAIN."

v Victorian'' / k:o ; msH'W'NibN's 'Jl • PROTIST.'■ • • •. • liidignant .' speeches {were: made' at 'a' deputation, .from- the; council thoVictorian Scottish Union to the' Minister, for.Education, the other -dwr, at. the prevailing, nnsusb of the word- .England when,the word. ";Britain . -should'bo used. ' ' The; president (Mr. J: Stewart) directed' to the historical hooka now used m; the schools, which were- termed':" English histories, sorao of\which, ;he' regretted to say,: were written ;by Scotsmen, . Whit-was wanted, and wanted,clsewhere:'tbari in Scot-" land,- was- that; the .history!-'of ,~the ; Empire I Hi-i not-;fromi an English or Scottish or an Irish, but a/purely Britpoint; of view; -People jshoujd-'be' taught I to have regard-to ..the development of the Jimpire as " At, present in ■ our Im,. S i whole; of the ! history* from-1066 until-the present- time that '.was -taticht' was characterised 'as " English' history.!' In- the morning papers, ' concluded: for. -Stewart thero appeared a- report of ; a ..banqudt' at the,lmperial Institute, ,whore tho PrincoVof Wa qs.made uso-of. thcvrtatcment that "Enc-land'to-day .is spreading .herself over the' whole, of. the surface:.of the ghibe," .When statements like' this woro' made in such; hieh placos, it ms time that all patriotic Scotstish- ■ associations should - strongly, urgo : that steps be taken to bring about tho proper observance of Imperil. terms. Tho union therefore. strong y put rorth a- plea tliat toinstruct , the infantile niind was the best way! of' securing a remedy. ' • •