All of these joined in 1910 in a union intended to be as indissoluble as that of the United States.

Unhappily, we know cases enough where a connection apparently indissoluble between two persons, has, by the accidental introduction of a third, been utterly destroyed, and one or the other of the once happily united pair been driven out into the wilderness.

If they represented the dissolution of a great political fabric, in which they once gloried with equal pride, they meant union herea oneness indissoluble in admiration for a great genius whose memory can no more be localised to a nation than the interest of his works.