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Some of the Problems of Empire: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 3D, 1868

Joseph A. Benton

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Description:Excerpt from Some of the Problems of Empire: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 3d, 1868 Empires have been built on man overthrown, rather than on chained seas and continents subdued, and forests hewn down, and mountains leveled, and rivers Spanned, and nature wooed into the bondage of sweet and tireless servitude. The old dream of empire seems to have been a magnificent rather than a grand one. It was continental, not universal. Its horizon was scarcely wider than that set by the common thirst for power, and the probable sweep of armies though new fields of em pire shaped themselves from chaos as the centuries rolled. And when, at length, imagination had plumed her wings for adventurous ight, the habitable world had outgrown human conceit, and the possibilities of men had become immeasurable. Profane history knows nothing of any very early empire. There was none. There could be none. Empire is impossible where there is not some sort of culture to become its nucleus, and then its center. Barbarism, by its very terms, ekelndes organization, culture and art. Men must begin, at least, to think, to study, to project, to combine and organize, before they can render war and conquest even dignified, and before any permanence can be given to their results. As soon as it is known how conquests can be held, as well as made, the act of governing men has been found at least, in its rudiments.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Some of the Problems of Empire: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 3D, 1868. To get started finding Some of the Problems of Empire: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 3D, 1868, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Some of the Problems of Empire: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 3d, 1868 Empires have been built on man overthrown, rather than on chained seas and continents subdued, and forests hewn down, and mountains leveled, and rivers Spanned, and nature wooed into the bondage of sweet and tireless servitude. The old dream of empire seems to have been a magnificent rather than a grand one. It was continental, not universal. Its horizon was scarcely wider than that set by the common thirst for power, and the probable sweep of armies though new fields of em pire shaped themselves from chaos as the centuries rolled. And when, at length, imagination had plumed her wings for adventurous ight, the habitable world had outgrown human conceit, and the possibilities of men had become immeasurable. Profane history knows nothing of any very early empire. There was none. There could be none. Empire is impossible where there is not some sort of culture to become its nucleus, and then its center. Barbarism, by its very terms, ekelndes organization, culture and art. Men must begin, at least, to think, to study, to project, to combine and organize, before they can render war and conquest even dignified, and before any permanence can be given to their results. As soon as it is known how conquests can be held, as well as made, the act of governing men has been found at least, in its rudiments.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Some of the Problems of Empire: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 3D, 1868. To get started finding Some of the Problems of Empire: Oration Delivered at the Commencement of the College of California, Wednesday, June 3D, 1868, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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