John Seeley Quote

We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.


The Expansion of England (1883) Lecture 1


We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.