Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London


Island McGill was without a history. She boasted none of the
events that go to make history. There had never been any wearing
of the green, any Fenian conspiracies, any land disturbances.
There had been but one eviction, and that purely technical--a test
case, and on advice of the tenant's lawyer. So Island McGill was
without annals. History had passed her by. She paid her taxes,
acknowledged her crowned rulers, and left the world alone; all she
asked in return was that the world should leave her alone. The
world was composed of two parts--Island McGill and the rest of it.
And whatever was not Island McGill was outlandish and barbarian;
and well she knew, for did not her seafaring sons bring home report
of that world and its ungodly ways?

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