...ial pre-eminence. But when we match them with those of America, it is Lilliput against Brobdingnag. Yet in the face of all this, with a continent instead of an island, with twice the population of Great Britain , and with more of the natural aptitudes for the widest fields of manufactures than can be claimed even for the people from whom we sprang, Mr. Gladstone would place the most inventive nation in the w...