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The main strategical importance of the roadless vehicle lies, however,
in the fact that it will, by degrees, fill the Dominions and Colonies
with virile men. Australia with a population of twenty-five millions has
little to fear from Asiatic races; with fifty millions—nothing. All
these changes and many others will be discovered in an Empire recreated
by a little iron, a little thought, and much perseverance.