text:  Those advantages which you suppose to disturb the equities of the case--were they not products of British energy? Those twenty-five thousand of ships whose graceful shadows darken the blue waters in every climate--did they build themselves? That myriad of acres laid out in the watery cities of docks--were they sown by the rain as the fungus or the daisy? Britain _has_ advantages at this stage of the race which make the competition no longer equal--henceforwards it has become gloriously "unfair"--but at starting we were all equal