Author : Edward Lyttelton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267610730
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Book Synopsis Britain's Duty To-Day (Classic Reprint) by : Edward Lyttelton
Download or read book Britain's Duty To-Day (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Lyttelton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Britain's Duty to-Day Sundry British scholars have testified to their admiration for German culture, and are evidently disposed to believe that a nation which has produced Beethoven, Goethe, and Mommsen must be a civilising influence in the world against which it is wrong to contend. Others, whose views are well expressed by Mr. Norman Angell, point to the power of the principle of nationality - urging that Germany has for long been expanding, but her expansion has been thwarted by the hostility of her neighbours, which is intelligible, but more than all by the jealousy of Britain, which appears to Germany to be the outcome of a supreme selfishness, all the more detestable because it has hitherto been rewarded by immense and wholly undeserved success. That being so, a large-minded nation, such as we profess to he, ought to mend matters not by fighting but by conciliation, and, above all, by ceasing to profess disinterestedness when our aims are merely commercial, and dictated by a love of humdrum routine. 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.