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In an article entitled "The danger of Empire",
a Liberal writer claimed "Dolve deep into the haart of the
Little Englandar and t1 will probably be found that he Is
almost an proud as the comton jingo of the extent and power
of the British Empire but that be seeks to love the
people which compose the nation oven better than the
nation itself. "
(2) A distinction was made by the Quaker
Liberal, Robert Spence Watson between Conservatives who
wanted to make the Empire bigger and Liberals who wanted
to make it better,
(3)
Ilia ideal was ". ". an Empire which
shall be great, not through the multitude of its peoples
not because of its boundless territories, not in consequence
of the strength which is ever over excrciculto over-reach
and over-come others, and to add more and ever more to
its numbers and its size, but of an Empire which shall be
conspicuous over all others by the wisdom of its
govornmont, by the content and happiness of the governed,
by the fooling of brotherhood uniting altogether its
constituent ports... "
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(1) Contosnrortry tovie +, Vol 76g 1899, Robert Buchnnn u,
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the voice of tho hooligan's pp. 77449.
(2) 1Ioi tminnter feyiow, Juno 1900, F. A. A. Rowlands "The
danger of Empire" pia. 605-11.
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