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Title: The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain
Nineteenth Century Europe

Author: J. A. Cramb

Release Date: December 19, 2009 [EBook #30710]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note: transliterated Greek is surrounded by plus signs,
e.g. "+agoniai+". Italicized text is surrounded by _underscores_. In
the phrase "_sov[)a]v sov[=e]v_", "[)a]" represents a-breve, "[=e]"
represents e-macron. "[oe]" represents the oe-ligature pair.]

[Frontispiece: J. A. Cramb]

THE

ORIGINS AND DESTINY

OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN

NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPE

BY THE LATE

J. A. CRAMB, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LONDON

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE AND PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1915

_All rights reserved_

[Illustration: Greek text]

"For the noveltie and strangenesse of the matter which I determine and
deliberate to entreat upon, is of efficacie and force enough to draw
the mindes both of young and olde to the diligent reading and digesting
of these labours. For what man is there so despising knowledge, or any
so idle and slothfull to be found, which will eschew or avoide by what
policies or by what kinde of government the most part of nations in the
universall world were vanquished, subdued and made subject unto the one
empire of the Romanes, which before that time was never seen or heard?
Or who is there that hath such earnest affection to other discipline or
studie, that he suposeth any kind of knowledge to be of more value or
worthy to be esteemed before this?"

_The Histories of the most famous Chronographer_, POLYBIUS.

(Englished by C. W., and imprinted at London, Anno 1568).

PREFACE

The following pages are a reprint of a course of lectures delivered in
May, June, and July, 1900. Their immediate inspiration was the war in
South Africa (two of the lectures deal directly with that