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 their admiration with no little distaste.
Thus to the slowly gathering, powerfully discharging emotions of an earlier day, when the grounds and preliminaries of war might be debated for a year, there succeeds a quick and clamorous sensibility: easily started, easily diverted, from Khartoum to Afghanistan, from Fashoda to the Transvaal; always there to be inflamed, one day by messages, pert or menacing, from the Kaiser or President Cleveland: another by truculent exchanges between Chamberlain and Caprivi.
All the world is alike, whether it be Pan-Slays trumpeting their designs on Trieste, Pan-Germans on Denmark, or Mr Olney informing the Queen's Majesty that her sovereignty in Canada is unnatural and transitory.
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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 spark may 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 support
Whether elements so disparate would fall apart by mutual consent, or reunite ...
Whether elements so disparate would fall apart by mutual consent, or reunite in a new order; of what shape or nature that order would be-a Customs Union or Union for Defense, with represen