 | Edward Murray Wrong - Biography & Autobiography - 1926 - 368 pages
...Canadian Assembly of a narrow and unprofitable racialism. The famous passage in the Report, ' I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races ', expresses the views of Buller before and after contact with the problem more accurately than it... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 526 pages
...this history is that dealing with events during this century. " I found," said Lord Durham in 1839, " two nations warring in the bosom of a single State...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." ELIZABETHAN MYTHOLOGY. Ph.D. (Silver, Burdett, & Co., Boston, USA) £ Miss Sawtelle's exhaustive and,... | |
 | Basil Williams - Great Britain - 1928 - 276 pages
...Canada, where, he soon divined, lay the most difficult problem. Here, to use his own words, "I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people:...found a struggle not of principles, but of races;" a struggle which, owing to its French majority, might end in the province ceasing to be in any sense... | |
 | Edmund Wilson - History - 1965 - 274 pages
...hackneyed, but it is worth noting here as an early recognition of the split in Canadian society: "I expected to find a contest between a government and a people:...found a struggle not of principles but of races." Growing fear of the expansion of the United States, after the victory over the South in the Civil War,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1908 - 674 pages
...the rule of a French majority. How keen the opposition was is shown in Lord Durham's statement : ' I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single...found a struggle not of principles but of races.' The history of the struggle whereby loyal acquiescence in the principles of representative government,... | |
 | Janet Ajzenstat - History - 1988 - 160 pages
...fact, a contest of races. "4 As he puts it in the most often quoted passage in the Report : "I expected to find a contest between a government and a people...state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races."5 There is something puzzling about the notion conveyed by these famous lines. As I argued in... | |
 | Graham Fraser - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 504 pages
...ideology in Quebec would reflect the clergy's world view . . .": Moniere, p. 120. 3 31 Durham: "I expected to find a contest between a government and a people:...two nations warring in the bosom of a single state": Lord Durham's Report, pp. 22-3. 41 "... the Ministry of Public Instruction . . . was abolished . .... | |
 | Josep Ma Castellà Andreu - Canada - 2001 - 432 pages
...en el que respecto a las relaciones entre francófonos y anglófonos en Canadá sostiene "/ expected to find a contest between a government and a people. I found two nations warring in the bosom ofa single state. 1 found a struggle, not of principles, but of races", a la vez que cree que los primeros... | |
 | Julie Evans - History - 2003 - 278 pages
...conditions of the Indigenous peoples. When, in the opening passages, he wrote about Canada, 'I expected to find a contest between a government and a people;...found a struggle not of principles but of races', Durham was referring, not to a struggle between European and Indigenous Canadians, but to the conflict... | |
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I expected to find a contest between a government and a people — I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state : I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races... 
