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56 The Decline and Fall country. They were too busy with their commerce and their cargoes, their professional athletes and their race-horses, to study the past and the unalterable decrees of Heaven. There was no need for them to adopt the lengthy Conscription of Europe, but it was absolutely essen- tial for the defence of their scattered possessions that they should spend three or four months of their youth in learning the duties of a soldier's life.* Their boasted liberty had become only another name for license. * Hooligans,' as they dubbed the undisciplined sons of English slums, ran riot in their streets. There existed among them no respect * For the fact that they had been told this see Earl Roberts' statement concerning the inefficiency of the Volunteers and Militia. ** It is impossible under the present system to rely upon the Volunteers as they are now, or upon the Militia. Some change must be made ; either they must have more training, or we must use some means to create an Army."—Royal Commission on War in South Africa, Minutes ofEvidence I. , page 437-
of the British Empire 57 for parents, no reverence for old age, nothing but an insane insistence that every sorry child of sloth and ignorance had an unreasoning right to do exactly v^hat he pleased. Four months under canvas, a rigid discipline, and a sound education in the most bracing of all schools, the school of war, would have given a new tone to the community, and compelled every man to realize what it meant to be the citizen of an Empire which strove to direct the aspirations of the world. But further, and beyond all this, such a training would have crushed for ever the spirit of Jingoism and unchristian militarism in which the English crowed over their petty triumphs against native princes, or alternately deified and damned their generals ; and would have substituted for it that soldierly and statesmanlike frame of mind
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