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What is true is that the course of events , and the way in which the steam-engine and the telegraph bring the world everywhere closer together , are unfavourable to that prominence in any country which at one time was attainable by particular localities , or by small bodies of persons living somewhat apart from the general course of national life . So far as we have gone , we have found that , wherever [ 381 ] one party steps into the rights or obligations of another , without in turn filling the situation of fact of which those rights or obligations are the legal consequences , the substitution is explained by a fictitious identification of the two individuals , which is derived from the analogy of the inheritance . These facts may rekindle among the youth of England as of France the sense that to be young is very heaven ; these facts may console old men whom political disillusion and disappointment which they deem undeserved may have tempted towards despair , and enable them to rejoice with calmness and gravity that they have lived long enough to see the day when the solemn call to the performance of a grave national duty has united every man and every class of our common country in the determination to defy the strength , the delusions , and the arrogance of a militarised nation , and at all costs to secure for the civilised world the triumph of freedom , of humanity , and of justice . But , when every admission which the most ardent of Imperialists can ask for , is made of the benefits conferred in every quarter of the world upon the inhabitants of different countries , by the existence of England 's Imperial power , it is quite possible for a calm observer to doubt whether the so-called federalisation of the British Empire is an object which ought to be aimed at by the statesmen either of England or of the Dominions . Political inventiveness has in general fallen far short of the originality displayed in other fields than politics by the citizens of progressive or civilised States . Recent Acts have given judicial or quasi-judicial authority to officials46 who stand more or less in connection with , and therefore may be influenced by , the government of the day , and hence have in some cases excluded , and in others indirectly diminished , the authority of the law Courts . According to the general opinion there must be a privity of estate between the covenantor and covenantee in the latter class of cases in order to bind the assigns of the covenantor . Some have supposed this privity to be tenure ; some , an interest of the covenantee in the land of the covenantor ; and so on .