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614.
Conclusion.
By 1900 moat Liberals accepted unquestioningly the
Empire of the self-governing colonien and India.
More significant was the gradual awareness and
acceptance of the Imperialist expansion into tropical
arean. Expansion in Africa in the courts of
frontier warn with native tribes, had been quietly
going on for some years before 9880. But this had
been largely unnoticed by the general public, From
the 18i00s however there was a growing consciousness
of expansion, an increased interest is its and the
construction of an elaborate cane to justify it,
An Imperialist ideology developed,
The opponents of expansion carried on a long
rear-guard action, Opposition won led by-two main
11,11 11
groupo, - tho Liberal Nonconformists und the $ocialiot/
Iadiceln. But these groups had little_in_oormona
except hostility to furtbar expannion_cf the Empire.
They differed considerably in their viown. on domontic
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