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The Psychology of Jingoism

not die; that they will dog our footsteps in the dark and tortuous path of our Imperial career; that they will come upon us in an hour of weakness, when, enfeebled by a parasitic life of Empire, we are entangled in the meshes of our world-wide ambitions, and will help to paralyze us by their sudden presence, unnerving us in the final struggle, and bringing home to us the true meaning of the inevitable in politics.

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