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, Imperialism meant, in the first instance, the mode of government associated with Napoleon III, or more vaguely with Austria or the Tsar, and the association made the title of Empress' distasteful to many devoted subjects of the Queen.
Its application under
other conditions was defined
by Lord Carnarvon, who, as a young Under-Secretary, had presided over the federation of Canada; who afterwards tried to federate South Africa, and nursed the fancy, at least, of federating Great England and Ireland; and who, in 1878, had broken with the Imperialism of Disraeli.' The age of indifference, he told an audience in Edinburgh, was over; we were at the parting of the ways.One led to a mere material aggrandizement of territory and armaments, of restless intrigue and reckless expenditure.
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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 self-govern
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
The purification of that service from the time of Clive onwards; its ...
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