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12 The Decline and Fall know in all its ghastly details the disillusioning story of their defeat. What the English wanted at the opening of the Twentieth Century, when these evils were becoming unmistakably prominent, was a number of Cabinet Ministers of the President Roosevelt type : men with a genius for duty, with seasoned bodies and masterful minds, who would not permit the nation to slumber amid the deafening armament of Europe. III. The Growth of Refinement and Luxury, Gibbon makes much of this, and the historian of British decadence will be equally severe. The evils in both nations were remarkably alike. We observe the same inclination in both to regard pleasure as the end of existence ; the same devotion to costly banquets ; the same refusal to take exercise ; and the same increas-
of the British Empire 13 ing popularity of steam or Turkish Baths. We note in both Empires the growing numbers of irresponsible wealthy Capitalists who lavished large sums on menials and failed to realize that inherited leisure is only justified when it is devoted to the community. In both Empires, as they ap- proached the brink, the cost of living increased by leaps and bounds, and the problems of poverty became more acute. Free grants of corn and bread were among the chief corrosive influences at Rome ; and the presentation of free meals to British School-children in 1910, was one of the most disastrous acts of that false philanthropy which did so much to ruin England. In both Empires too, the numbers of un- healthy parents increased, and in both the sturdy dutiful yeoman dwindled into nothingness.
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