But we think that your practice in the abatement of privilege has ...
But we think that your practice in the abatement of privilege has given you a taste for innovation in itself, and a habit of setting class against class which we both fear and deplore.
Both of us doubtless hold that a contented people will be a united people, and that unity is the only sure pledge whether of progress in peace or victory in war. But when we look abroad we see ourselves in a more dangerous world than you conceive.
Our lead is shortening: our markets closing: and still our numbers are increasing.
How many of the nations acknowledge your Free Trade? How far does your call for Peace and Retrenchment carry? Blame Nature,
if we are Imperialists; or blame Fate,
which set these islands at the meeting of the great sea-ways on the verge of an armed Continent. ...could you create better content >>
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Hereafter, in a less perilous age than this, there will be room ...
Hereafter, in a less perilous age than this, there will be room for you again. But unless you are Imperialists also, you will not be there to fill it.' To an Englishman of 1870, Imp
The true Imperialism was a flexible and considerate policy of guidance, of ...
The true Imperialism was a flexible and considerate policy of guidance, of justice between natives and settlers, of reconciliation, emancipation, and training for s
But the first man to state the new ideas clearly was Disraeli. ...
But the first man to state the new ideas clearly was Disraeli.
Just twenty years later the Oxford Dictionary wrote: 'In recent British politics Imperialism means the principle