text:  Portugal like England with a narrow territory but that territory largely open to the sea was maritime from her beginning; like England her early power was derived from the discovery of remote countries; like England she threw her force into colonization at an era when all other nations of Europe were wasting their strength in unnecessary wars; like England without desiring to enlarge her territory she has preserved her independence; and so sustain the similitude to its full extent like England she founded an immense colony in the western world with which after severing the link of government she retains the link of a common language policy literature and religion