...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...

...and held a sanguine view of the beneficial effects of colonial experience on the Anglo-Saxon stock: 'I am one of those who hold that in this larger atmosphere,...corroding ease and the morbid excitements of Western civilisation'.9 But the code of masculinity placed conflicting demands on men, upholding an ideal of...

...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...

...atmosphere, on the outskirts of Empire, where j...] the individual is strong, is to be found an enobling and invigorating stimulus for our youth, saving them alike from the corroding ease and morbid excitements of Western civilization". The terms Curzon uses, "larger atmosphere"; "invigorating";...

...the machine [of civilization] is relatively impotent and the individual is strong, is to be found the ennobling and invigorating stimulus for our youth,...corroding ease and the morbid excitements of Western civilization."11 As with Edwardes, Curzon argues that there is something noble and character-building...