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sport among an gorontially aportine people'"
(1) Another writer
assorted, " "That Imporiclinzn is allied to, and has been fostered
by the recent British delight in athleticism in no certain as
that it in a : ascionato and yet philosophic protest for
nationalism as a force in tho life of the world**" Aggrocnion
which was an important ingredient of Imperialism was linked with
sporting
instincts,
- "The hatred of being beaten in deeply
rooted in the British working man. It shown itself in the
intense interest excited by the rivalry between one team and
another in open air ganoc., '" {3)
L. T. Robhouse despaired at
the prova±ling, mood, . "No cocial revolution will coma from a
people so absorbed in cricket and football. "
Imperialism and militarism wore inextricably associated.
The period from 1884 was marked by an increase in naval and
military spending. Critics of Empire declared, "The very word
Empire is in history and oaeonco military; emperor moans noldior;
(1) : 4nntririater Roviowg June 1900, op cit,
(2) Fortnightly Review 1900 op cits p" 268,
(3) urterly Jaurnnl, January 1899i op cit.
(4) L. T. Hahhouno, D ocrac,,, c p rndRe ctto t London 1909, p. 78"
(4)