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iv Preface they failed to do, and we know the result. In compiling this book, my thanks are therefore due to that laborious author. In numerous in- stances I have found those phrases in which he described the decadence of Rome singularly applicable to the England of the Twentieth Century. In all such cases I give references to Gibbon's work in the English Bohn Edition, 7 volumes, 1853-5. ToKio, 2005. THE AUTHOR.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE* npHE sudden Fall of' oitr ^teat Western Ally ten years ago, unanticipated as it was ])y t-ie thoughtless mass of mankind, should have come as no surprise to those few persons who study the rise and fall of Empires, and are acquainted with the causes which, in every case, have brought about their dissolution. No writer who possesses a heart can however afford to look at the fall of England merely with the eye of the moralist or the calm historian. I would therefore remind my readers of the great love which our nation has always had for the English, and of our profound regret when we felt Copyright in Thibet.
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