The future of the Dominion of Canada : an address delivered before the Canadian Club of New York.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
New Papers on Canadian History forests, and the exhaustless treasures of her mines and seas.Under the Confederation immense strides have been made in national development, and this I think ought to be a guarantee for the future.But, after all, there are several gentlemen in Canada, who are not satisfied with the Union.Indeed, at very frequent intervals, some patriot who has failed in the pulpit or at the bar, who has brought a country school into disrepute, or added to the population of a graveyard, arises among his countrymen, and declares that the Confederation must be smashed.The intensity of his eloquence on such an occasion will be commensurate with his wants.If he is able to scrape along at all, he will not be very fierce, and will receive no great attention ; but if there is neither brief, nor school, nor pulpit, nor consumptive in sight, he rises to the very highest pitch of patriotism, and some admiring organ of public opinion puts an ''extra" at his disposal.If, in the experience of Dr.Johnson, "patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel," in ours, treason is the first refuge of a patriot.I presume that those who hear me are not unaware that Nova Scotia has lately passed resolutions affirming a desire for separation, and there is a rumor in the air that New Brunswick wants to get adrift.I do not believe that these ideas will prevail ; but they have undermined faith in the solidity of the Union, and Castle Garden receives the immigrant.It is no harm, however, to sin against the State.If you libel an individual, or decry his enterprise, the law will look after the matter ; but assail the country whose institutions protect, and whose kindly breast sustains, and the Governor
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.099 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".