 I am one of those who hold that in this larger atmosphere, on the outskirts of Empire, where the machine is relatively impotent and the individual is strong, is to be found an ennobling and invigorating stimulus for our youth, saving them alike from the...  Frontiers - Page 57by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1908 - 58 pagesFull view - About this book
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...both great branches of the AngloSaxon race— the "ennobling and invig orating stimulus for our youth, them alike from the corroding ease and the morbid excitements of Western civilization"— could hardly have escaped the attention of such an omnivorous reader. Nothing, however, could be more... | |
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...expansion' was taking place 'on the outskirts of the Empire', and, Lord Curzon claimed, was providing 'an ennobling and invigorating stimulus for our youth,...corroding ease and the morbid excitements of Western civilization'.25 It also had a specific role to play in that project. Ten years before the Boer War... | |
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