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.