Remarks on the historical mis-statements and fallacies of Mr. Goldwin Smith, in his Lecture "On the foundation of the American colonies," and his Letters "On the emancipation of the colonies".
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Abstract
has wrLten to the newspapers four letters on what he calls " the emancipation oi the colonies;" that is the retracing of the policy by which Great Britain has become the greatest national power of the globe ; the reduction of an empire over hundreds of millions to a kingdom including thirty millions ; the shrivelling of an empire on which the sun never sets to a minor island of Europe.*Mr. Goldwin Smith's attacks on England and the Colonies.As a native of Canada-to which Mr.Goldwin Smith's hostility is chiefly directed -I beg to enter my protest against the doctrine he advances, and the statements he adduces in its support.His four letters are but the one in substance -expanded by as- sertions, diversified by illustrations, and effervescing with attacks on the English establishment, English statesmanship, the English press, colonial lethargy, avarice ond meanness.On recovering from the momentary hallucination of Mr. Goldwin Smith's eloquent reveries and revelries, what do we find but that his history is ro- mance, his philosophy partizanship, his patriotism treason against all that makes British institutions the heritage of the freeest and most progressive countries of tho age ; and British civilization with its Christianity the most potent regenerator of man kind.Had there been no Grecian colonies, Grecian civilization had been little known or felt beyond its birth-place ; and had the states of North America not been once a British colony, they would not now have been the theme of Mr. Goldwin Smith's eulogies.Mr.il Fa \ts in support of his pernicious Theories, Whenever Mr. Goldwin Smith touches on America, whether in respect to Canada or the older British colonies, now the United States, he seems to lose sight
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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 | 0.011 | 0.028 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.014 | 0.035 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.007 |
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".