Of this Imperialism, where much was exalted and much corrupt, much, and ...
Of this Imperialism, where much was exalted and much corrupt, much, and perhaps the greatest part, was no more than adventurous.
We must consider the influence of the telegraph and the war-correspondent, in vivifying messages which had once trailed through, months after the event, in official dispatches borne by sail; of the newer, livelier press, rapidly surrendering the make-believe that newspapers were the instructors of the people or that the Board-school population desired to be instructed;' of the ever-growing literature of travel and adventure, always pushing farther into the unknown and always leaving something for the next pioneer.
Still armies might march into the mountains and be lost for weeks, as Roberts marched on Kandahar: into the desert and be lost forever, as Hicks was lost at El Obeid. Still false prophets might arise in the wastes beyond Wady Halfa, still Lhassa was unvisited, and a man might make himself as famous by riding to Khiva in fact, as by discovering King Solomon's Mines in fiction.
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The ways of adventure stood wide open, and in Stanley the world ...
The ways of adventure stood wide open, and in Stanley the world had seen the last of the great adventurers. Those who measured him / her against Livingstone might qualify the
We can observe the areas of special tension: there is the Far ...
We can observe the areas of special tension: there is the Far East, there is the North-West Frontier; there are always the Balkans; and in anyone the discharging s
But we may easily censure the diplomacy of the Imperialist age too ...
But we may easily censure the diplomacy of the Imperialist age too harshly if we forget in what Titanic chaos it was involved. A still increasing population supported increasingly on f