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Excerpt from British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century The imperialism of to-day rests principally upon the desire for union with fellow-subjects over sea, and upon the belief that without Greater Britain the mother- country would become (in Lord Curzon's words) merely the inglorious playground of the world. Its motives are thus the gratification of national sentiment, and the strengthening of national influence. A wide gulf separates this creed from that which guided England while she built her empire. Hardly a flicker of racial feeling brightens the worldly wisdom which led to her triumphs in the eighteenth century. Even Chatham failed to realise that in commercial relations the Briton across the Atlantic should not be treated as an alien by the Briton at home. The conception of an Anglo-Saxon brotherhood, though it dawned on Benjamin Franklin, was unknown in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.