BOOK III PART II
and shoued connect them together in the clos-
est manner. But In fact the case is always found
to be otherwise, The empire of Great Britain
seems to draw along with it the dominion of
the Orkneys, the Hebrides, the isle of Man, and
the Isle of Wight; but the authority over those
lesser islands does not naturally imply any ti-
tle to Great Britain. In short, a small object
naturally follows a great one as its accession;
but a great one Is never supposed to belong
to the proprietor of a small one related to it,
merely on account of that property and rela-
tion. Yet in this latter case the transition of
ideas is smoother from the proprietor to the
small object, which is his property, and from
the small object to the great one, than in the
former case from the proprietor to the great ob-
ject, and from the great one to the small. It may
therefore be thought, that these phaenomena