The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain

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J. A. Cramb. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain

The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain

Table of Contents

PREFACE

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

PART I

SECTION. WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? 1. THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUS IN HISTORY. 2. ANCIENT AND MODERN IMPERIALISM. 3. THE MANDATE OF DESTINY

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL IDEAL. 1. OF THE ACTION OF STATES AND OF INDIVIDUALS. 2. THE LAW OF TRAGEDY AS APPLIED TO HISTORY. 3. THE LAW OF TRAGEDY: ITS SECOND ASPECT

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RELIGIOUS IDEAL. 1. RELIGION AND IMPERIALISM. 2. THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN ENGLISH HISTORY. 3. DISTINCTION OF THE RELIGION OF THE VIKINGS. 4. WORLD-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION. 5. THE TESTIMONY OF THE PAST: A FINAL CONSIDERATION

PART II

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. 1. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. 2. NATIONALITY AND IMPERIALISM. 3. THE WAR OF A DEMOCRACY. 4. COSMOPOLITANISM AND JINGOISM. 5. MILITARISM

WHAT IS WAR? 1. THE PLACE OF WAR IN WORLD-HISTORY. 2. DEFINITION OF WAR. 3. COUNT TOLSTOI AND CARLYLE UPON WAR. 4. COUNT TOLSTOI AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SLAVONIC GENIUS. 5. THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST AND WAR. 6. THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL PEACE. 7. IMPERIALISM AND WAR

THE VICISSITUDES OF STATES AND EMPIRES. 1. THE METAPHYSICAL ORIGIN OF THE STATE. 2. THE STATE, EMPIRES, AND ART. 3. THE FALL OF EMPIRES: THE THEORY OF RETRIBUTION. 4. THE FALL OF EMPIRES: THE CYCLIC THEORY. 5. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE "FALL OF AN EMPIRE"?

THE DESTINY OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN AND THE DESTINY OF MAN. 1. THE PRESENT STAGE IN THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN. 2. THE DESTINY OF MAN. 3. THE FOUR PERIODS OF MODERN HISTORY. 4. THE IDEAL OF THE FOURTH AGE. 5. THE "ACT" AND THE "THOUGHT" 6. BRITAIN'S WORLD-MISSION: THE WITNESS OF THE DEAD TO THE MANDATE OF THE PRESENT

1. DOMINION OF THE IDEAL OF LIBERTY. 2. NATIONALITY AND MODERN REPUBLICANISM. 3. THE IDEALS OF A NEW AGE

PART I. THE TESTIMONY OF THE PAST

REFLECTIONS ON THE. ORIGINS AND DESTINY OF. IMPERIAL BRITAIN

LECTURE I

WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? [Tuesday, May 8th, 1900]

§ I. THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUS IN HISTORY

§ 2. ANCIENT AND MODERN IMPERIALISM

§ 3. THE MANDATE OF DESTINY

LECTURE II

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL IDEAL [Tuesday, May 15th, 1900]

§ I. OF THE ACTION OF STATES AND OF INDIVIDUALS

§ 2. THE LAW OF TRAGEDY AS APPLIED TO HISTORY

§ 3. THE LAW OF TRAGEDY: ITS SECOND ASPECT

LECTURE III

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RELIGIOUS IDEAL [Tuesday, May 22nd, 1900]

§ 1. RELIGION AND IMPERIALISM

§ 2. THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN ENGLISH HISTORY

§ 3. DISTINCTION OF THE RELIGION OF THE VIKINGS

§ 4. WORLD-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION

§ 5. THE TESTIMONY OF THE PAST: A FINAL CONSIDERATION

PART II

THE DESTINY OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN

LECTURE IV

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA [Tuesday, May 29th, 1900]

§ I. THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

§ 2. NATIONALITY AND IMPERIALISM

§ 3. THE WAR OF A DEMOCRACY

§ 4. COSMOPOLITANISM AND JINGOISM

§ 5. MILITARISM

LECTURE V

WHAT IS WAR? [Tuesday, June 12th, 1900]

§ 1. THE PLACE OF WAR IN WORLD-HISTORY

§ 2. DEFINITION OF WAR

§ 3. COUNT TOLSTOI AND CARLYLE UPON WAR

§ 4. COUNT TOLSTOI AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SLAVONIC GENIUS

§ 5. THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST AND WAR

§ 6. THE IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL PEACE

§ 7. IMPERIALISM AND WAR

LECTURE VI

THE VICISSITUDES OF STATES AND EMPIRES [Tuesday, July 3rd, 1900]

§ I. THE METAPHYSICAL ORIGIN OF THE STATE

§ 2. THE STATE, EMPIRES, AND ART

§ 3. THE FALL OF EMPIRES: THE THEORY OF RETRIBUTION

§ 4. THE FALL OF EMPIRES: THE CYCLIC THEORY

§ 5. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE "FALL OF AN EMPIRE"?

LECTURE VII

THE DESTINY OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN AND THE DESTINY OF MAN [Tuesday, July 10th, 1900]

§1. THE PRESENT STAGE IN THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN

§ 2. THE DESTINY OF MAN

§ 3. THE FOUR PERIODS OF MODERN HISTORY AND THEIR IDEALS

§ 4. THE IDEAL OF THE FOURTH AGE

§ 5. THE "ACT" AND THE "THOUGHT"

§ 6. BRITAIN'S WORLD-MISSION: THE WITNESS. OF THE DEAD TO THE MANDATE OF THE PRESENT

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DOMINION OF THE IDEAL OF LIBERTY

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NATIONALITY AND MODERN REPUBLICANISM

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THE IDEALS OF A NEW AGE

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[1] The Latin work of Osorius, De rebus gestis Emmanuelis regis Lusitaniae, appeared in 1574, two years later than Os Lusiadas. The twelve books of Osorius cover the twenty-six years between 1495 and 1521, thus traversing parts of the same ground as Camoens. But the hero of Osorius is Alboquerque. His affectation of Ciceronianism, the literary vice of the age, casts a suspicion upon the sincerity of many of his epithets and paragraphs, yet the work as a whole is composed with his eyes upon his subject. Seven years after the Latin, a French translation, a beautifully printed folio from Estienne's press, was published, containing eight additional books, by Lopez de Castanedo and others, bringing the history down to 1529.

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