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58 The Decline and Fall which is based on a knowledge of what grim war really means. Acquainted with rifles and realizing only too well the ghastly possibilities of the bayonet, the English * man in the street ' would have ceased to be a war-poet and have become the most peaceful of beings. It is the strong and disciplined nature which is merciful and just, which is tender towards women, and pitiful to the weak. It is the bragging but ignorant mind which has never been disciplined or trained, that takes delight in torturing dumb beasts and talks cant about the glory of an Empire for which it is unwilling to make the slightest sacrifice. Girt about with a race of disciplined civic riflemen, linked as one by a fleet which was adequately sup- plied with reserves, the British Empire might have realized at last the dreams of her Roman predecessor
of the British Empire 59 and British Peace^ might have been an everlasting tribute to that ideal of sober Christian discipline which was set forth by St. Paul. Where is the man so dull of heart that he fails to conceive the daring possibilities of such an Empire, a duty-loving, disciplined Empire, sober, and self-reliant, sworn to- gether for the protection of the weak, resolute in its mighty determination to preserve the peace of the world and hand on to its children the tradition that an Englishman was not one who shrieked about Imperialism, but a strong man armed who kept the palace of Justice and Peace secure and inviolable ? And now I would remind my countrymen, and particularly those youths and maidens for whom this book has been written, that such a This daring dream would of course have been best realized by a joint union of the Anglo-Saxon race, including America.
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