The political cycle has swung around to Unionism again.

The doctor sounds sympathetic to annexation here but, medically speaking, his admission that "there is no other remedy" is symptomatic of a deeper cynicism. See his profound denunciation of the "order" of the material interests below. His message thus amounts to saying that the tragedy of the human struggle for conquest can be remedied only by larger conquests. The human condition itself cannot be remedied.