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The Weary Titan: Popular Imperialism. Rosebery at Glasgow, 1900.
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Rosebery at Glasgow, 1900 ‘An empire such as ours requires as its first condition an imperial race … Are we rearing such a race? … In the great cities, in the rookeries and slums … an imperial race cannot be reared … That is a rift in the corner-stone of your Commonwealth’.
Alliances Japan (1902) France (1904) Russia (1907)