NECESSITY OF EXPANSION IN ASIA

495 tecting them, for reasons political, strategical, and com- mercial, is in constant use; the English, in particular, make almost annual additions to the ethnology of their empire. Undoubtedly an increasing border of territo- rial responsibilities must weigh on the minds of reflect- THE GANESA TEMPLE AT TIRUVENAMALAI IN SOUTH ABKOT. ive men in all times and countries. St. Augustine, looking out from his City of God over the still vast domain of Borne, debates the question whether it is fitting for good men to rejoice in the expansion of empires, even when the victors are more civilized than the vanquished, and the wars just and unprovoked. His conclusion is that to carry on war and extend ruler- ship over subdued nations seems to bad men felicity, but to good men a necessity.